Saturday, August 22, 2015

Glacier National Park

Glacier National Park was the last stop on this trip and it was well worth the wait.  Beautiful, amazing, fantastic, I could go on and on.

                                  
                                   Rose and Ted sitting on on the porch on our "cozy cabin".






                                        Driving the "Going to the Sun Road" was incredible.  Click on the
link below to learn more about the road.

http://www.nps.gov/glac/planyourvisit/goingtothesunroad.htm

We went on a two hour trail ride and had a blast!  Ted and Jane were very nervous and by the time we we were done, Ted was ready to go home and take horse back riding lessons!



When you spend so many hours on the road over 19 days, you notice so much more along the roadside than you ever would normally and this time for me, it was the cows!  Black cows in particular.  They are everywhere!  You see them in the 100+ degree heat, and the pouring rain and lightning, they are always there, roaming, eating.  So, when we got to Yellowstone, it blew my mind, when we came across "free range"cattle.  Yes, EXTREMELY large cows, just walking, standing eating in the middle of the road.  They didn't seem to care if there was a person, or car, or truck in their way.  One local warned us about driving too fast, because "cows are as smart as a jar of mayonnaise".  Whatever....I thought they were AWESOME!  If I had the room, I would have brought one home.









We stopped at Many Glacier Hotel.  It was built in 1914, by mostly Minnesotans.  It was beautiful....

        Ford Motor Company restored these for the National Park Service to use on tours.

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