All-Day Celebration on Mom’s birthday
We walked over to Pop's for breakfast at the crack of 11:30 a.m. to start the festivities for Mom's big day. Grits and scrambled eggs for both of us, plus I splurged on a glass of delicious Florida orange juice. It was funny to see the place in the day since Monday was a dark and stormy night. It's overlooking the causeway which of course we couldn't see when we arrived in the dark. It seems a little ironic that we hung out on the beach, my favorite thing, for Mom's special day. A nice man made a valiant attempt to screw the umbrella down into the sand and it stayed up for a while but I've...
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Back to the west side of Glacier National Park
Sunday morning, September 15th, we headed back to the west side of the park. My plan had been to take the Going-to-the-Sun road back across, stopping at Logan Pass to go on one of the must-see...
Pinnacle of the Grinnell Glacier Trail
whew, we saw the plaque which proclaimed we'd arrived at the glacier, but we really hadn't and had to hike another half hour. We finally got to our end point around one thirty. We had expected it to...
Hiking up to Grinnell Glacier!
Before our trip I was looking around on tripadvisor forums and "grinnell Glacier" kept popping up and I suddenly felt it was important that we try the hike up to the Glacier. I posted a question,...
Boat rides to the Grinnell Glacier Trail
Saturday, Sept. 14th we got up early and headed to the East entrance of Glacier. I had booked a 9:00 reservation on the boats which would take us from Many Glacier Hotel, over the Swiftcurrent Lake,...
East side of the Going-to- the-Sun Road
On Fri. Sept. 13th we headed away from Logan Pass and almost immediately stopped at a place called Lunch Creek. So named because it's a good place for a picnic. if it's not raining, that is. It was...
Going-to-the-Sun Road, part one
On Friday morning, Sept. 13th (friday the 13th and nothing horrible happened!), we packed up all our stuff and left the charming Chalet Motel in Whitefish. it was a half-hour drive to West Glacier,...
First full day in Montana…
...we didn't get to Glacier Park that day, but it was all part of my plan. It was Thursday, Sept. 12th, and we'd had a restful sleep at the charming little Chalet Motel in Whitefish. Like i wrote...
Wednesday, Sept. 11th, 2019 – arrival in Whitefish, MT.
After a good night's sleep, we spent all of Wednesday on the train to Glacier. They let us off the train sometimes, mostly so the smokers could light up. it was nice to get out in Shelby Montana,...
Heading off to Glacier National Park
I got back from my trip to Denver for my friend Christine's funeral on the evening of Saturday, Sept. 7th. Three days later, Tuesday Sept. 10th, Kevin and I got on the train in Springfield bound for...