May 25 and 26

May 25

Today we're going to Great Falls via Hwy 89. Not too far north of Livingston we saw a house that was completely surrounded by water, right up to the foundation. Soon after that we had a deer cross right in front of us. Thankfully I saw it coming and was able to warn Gary in time.

We stopped briefly at a roadside historical spot just north of the town of Clyde Park where I took a picture of a bronze of Jack Colter. The overlook was of the Shields River Valley through which many of the early mountain men traveled – Lewis and Clark, John Shields (one of the men in their party), Bridger, Colter, etc.)

Tonight we're at Dick's RV and, of course, it is raining.

Here's a picture of our traveling companions.

Here they are ready for the rain.

When Gary can't go outside he sits with his headphones on talking on his ham radio.



May 26

Woke up to rain again this morning.  Then it sort of cleared off and got very windy.  Another inside day.

We finally gave up and decided to go out so we drove to the Great Falls on the Missouri River about 7 miles north of town.  Pretty impressive.  They were discovered by Capt. Meriweather Lewis on June 13, 1805.  They are 77.3 ft. high.  The dam is 65 feet above them and the spillway is 1000 feet long.

 Talked to Jane and Roger and they were in Butte and should be here by dinnertime so we said we'd go to Walmart and get a roast for dinner. On the way we saw this metal sculpture called "The Suntalker" by Louis Pomeroy. It was in front of a TV station.

  

That's it for today.  We'll be heading into Canada tomorrow so I won't be able to post until we are someplace where there is WiFi.  It would be really expensive to use the hot spot on my phone until we are out of Canada.