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Part Three of the Great Western Road Trip is HERE
Part Four of the Great Western Road Trip is HERE
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Part Eleven of the Great Western Road Trip is HERE
Part Twelve of the Great Western Road Trip is HERE
Part Thirteen of the Great Western Road Trip is HERE
Part Two of the Great Western Road Trip is HERE
Part Three of the Great Western Road Trip is HERE
Part Four of the Great Western Road Trip is HERE
Part Five of the Great Western Road Trip is HERE
Part Six of the Great Western Road Trip is HERE
Part Seven of the Great Western Road Trip is HERE
Part Eight of the Great Western Road Trip is HERE
Part Nine of the Great Western Road Trip is HERE
Part Ten of the Great Western Road Trip is HERE
Part Eleven of the Great Western Road Trip is HERE
Part Twelve of the Great Western Road Trip is HERE
Part Thirteen of the Great Western Road Trip is HERE
Part Fourteen of the Great Western Road Trip is HERE
Part Fifteen of the Great Western Road Trip is HERE
Part Sixteen of the Great Western Road Trip is HERE
Part Sixteen of the Great Western Road Trip is HERE
We rose early and headed out but first Kim and Joel wanted to stop off at their alma mater, the University of Montana.
Hubs with the statue.
The Fall Season at the university hadn't commenced yet but the school was gearing up for students to move onto campus as evidenced by this electronic recycling dumpster next to one of the dorm builldings.
Kim and Joel happened by a professor while heading back to the car and spent a bit of time talking to this fellow. I had no clue who he was so I snapped some photos of the campus grounds. lol
The trip by modern vehicles along the Lolo Trail takes quite a bit less time than it took Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery back in 1805. The Corp and their area guides, among them a Shoshone native called Toby, took 11 days to cover 200 miles in the Bitterroot Mountains on their westward journey.
Now there is a nifty little Visitor's Center with some information and a gift shop.
". . . the pleasure I now felt in having tryumphed over the rockey Mountains and decending once more to a level and fertile country where there was every rational hope of finding a comfortable subsistence for myself and party can be more readily conceived than expressed, nor was the flattering prospect of the final success of the expedition less pleasing . . .”
Outside the Center was some flat flagstones around the base of a supporting timber for the building and people had left rocks on them.
Back on the road and down the mountains and we were crossing over into Idaho on Route 12.
We stopped at a cafè along this road in the middle of nowhere for some lunch. It was a scorching hot day and I don't recall them having a/c in the restaurant and we were the only people dining there. They did have ceiling fans going so that helped but it was too hot to eat.
Then it was back on the road and more lovely scenery.
I was melting in the heat so I used the porta-potty wandering around the informational boards then sat in the car out of the sun.
You can't get away from Lewis and Clark. In fact, the town of Lewiston is named for my ancestral cousin and across the Snake River from Lewiston is the town of Clarkston Washington, named for Lewis' cohort, William Clark.
Maybe an interesting aside here.....I worked at the Virginia Opera Company with a woman who told me she was related to William Clark. This was when I was in my 20's, long before I did any genealogy and found I was related to Meriwether Lewis. We were cousins and didn't know it at the time.
But we had finally made it to our westward destination.
Yay.
Sluggy
Gorgeous western pics! I didn’t realize Kim went to college in Montana. I assumed she went to college in Idaho, Oops! Anyways, both are gorgeous states! Cindy in the South
ReplyDeleteYou are right I turned on the air for you because you are so special and it did not work very well. My new house however can be a freezer.
ReplyDeleteI'd love a freezer but you can keep the rattlers. lol
DeleteI confess as I scrolled through the marvelous photos I wondered in the end did you find money?
ReplyDeleteAlas! Alack! No change was found that day.
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