Tuesday day five - We said goodby to whitefish and are travelling to Saint Mary’s, glacier National Park. Originally we were going to travel the 50 miles along the run to the sun road. This cuts through the mountains of glacier. However a wild fire broke several weeks ago out at lake Mc Donald and the Park Authority’s closed the road. We decided to travel to lake McDonald and the village of Apgar. The weather is clear and warm. Stopped off on the way to Mart...

Monday day four . After a breakfast of waffles, fruit, maple syrup and yogurt got us off to a reasonably healthy start!! We drove the car to down town Whitefish and parked near the railway station. Trains are big in Montana and comprise of two trains and hundreds of trucks so it was good to see passenger trains. The station looks like a Disney building it was so perfect. The track stretched for miles in both directions. We spoke to a couple of Amish looking peopl...

Tuesday day three. - Up early and after continual breakfast checked out of the hotel and made our way to the car hire company and changed the small Kia for a large Kia. Much better.All the cases fit in the boot. Weather is set to be over 70f and cloudless. Making our way to whitefish. This town is at the gateway to glacier Park. 133 miles away. We decided to stop off at the National Bison Range At Moiese about 40 miles from Missoula. We decided to take the longer...

Missoula Day One And Day Two. Friday 7th and Saturday 8th September. After nine hour flight, five hour stop over at Seattle airport and hour and half internal flight arrive at Missoula. The views from plane on both journeys were the most spectacular I have ever seen. Greenland and glaciers, massive and vast snow capped mountains in Canada. We go through customs and Collect hire car and given a Kia (ugh) instead of the spacious Toyota Camry we had paid for. Mart...