The Day We Slept in a Field

Since we had a late start to our trip, we ended not reaching Glacier until today.  We spent the night somewhere in Montana in a campground off of the road. 

We finally made it to the West Glacier this afternoon.   Our plans to explore the park were thwarted because the road that ran through the park was closed in the middle.  It opens Monday.  sheesh.

However, we did get to go down the road a little ways to Lake McDonald.  It was beautiful!!!  We found several awesome waterfalls and beautiful rocks!

 

It started to rain pretty hard, so we decided to drive around the park to the east entrance so that we could find a place to camp for the night.   We were able to get to St. Mary's lake, a stunning area of large mountains created by glaciers and a large, clear lake.  

Unfortunately, what we couldn't find was a place to spend the night.  All the campgrounds were closed except the ones that cost 50 dollars.   This trip is already costing us an arm and a leg...and we got a trailer so that we could camp anywhere.   Finally, Janae was able to sleuth out an abandoned campground.  And by abandoned I mean just grass and some tracks where people might have driven on a long time back.   

However, we have the best views of all the campgrounds and we can sing as loudly as we want.  Go team!!!   Here are some pictures from our trailer and inside our trailer.   My bed, (before I added blankets Janae's bed (with all the blankets), and our cooking area...tonight was beef stirfry.

Remember that these are just our cell phone pictures.  Anticipate our more fabulous pictures from our actual cameras when we return home.

We were able to make it through the day without any disasters...wow!!!!   1 day out of 2 ain't bad.   So Thanks for watching our trip! xoxo

The Day we Left our Mark on the World

So the two girls starring in this epic road trip are Janae from Boise and Sara from Tucson.  Long ago they met on a backpacking trip and became fast friends.  They have decided to test their kindred spirits in the refiners fire aka a 13 day road trip to Glacier National Park, Banff Canaadian National Park, Vancouver, Vancouver Island and Seattle.  (I said epic and I meant it).


From the very beginning of the trip it has already been an adventure.  Sara started it off by flying to Boise while simultaneously helping a child near her with a gushing bloody nose and giving advice to a mother with a single son who is struggling with being single.

She finally arrived and the next day the real adventure began as they went to pick up the trailer.   The older gentleman explained the ins and outs of the trailer and hitched it to Janae's vehicle.  Janae gently suggested that it wasn't hitched properly but he declined to believe her.  As our two heroines drove away they hit a bump 100 yards from the gentleman's house and that trailer sure became unhitched right fast.   The metal pole scratched a foot long gouging scar in the black asphalt. (Cool huh?!) The ladies jumped out of their vehicle and 2 Idaho mosquito control men came gallantly to their rescue.  The trailer was rehitched and the ladies resumed their adventure.



Driving through miles of  forest and orange cone construction zones, the ladies are behind schedule but will make it to Glacier in the morning!!!  Stay tuned for the next episode of 2 Girls a trailer and a Glacier!!!