We woke up to a beautiful sunny day on Tuesday. My first thought...great for picture taking! You know what a sunny day is like in the morning when it is early spring. Chilly for sure!
Mike had to find the scraper! Off we went to East Glacier. David the server in the restaurant gave us the idea to head the other direction. He said the view was great for pictures.
I thought the stair step formation of this waterfall was very unique.
More snowy mountains but they were closer and easier to take pictures of. The sun helped a lot. No clouds behind the mountains. Love the snow blowing off the top of them. It was a windy day.
Same mountains, different view.
East Glacier was about 30 miles from the Inn. We wanted to see the fabulous hotel where David used to work. He thought it was open but it wasn't. We drove through the blue tunnel and checked it out and I totally don't know why I didn't take a picture of it. Probably because it was full of snow and my thoughts were about not slipping instead of picture taking.
As far as a town goes East Glacier is small. Mike and I like to go to small town places to eat. We get to talk with some of the locals and hear lots of interesting stories. We talked to two men that were Blackfeet Indians. Very interesting stories about their heritage. I should have tried harder to remember the stories so I could have shared. I was on vacation so I wasn't concerned about remembering. I sort of forgot about the blog thing.
Here it is. The Two Medicine Grill. You are seeing almost the whole place. There were a couple more tables off to the right of the picture.
Even in East Glacier substitutes are needed.
The grill had a bar area to sit in. Just old fashioned goodness. Great food, great conversation!
Well, not sure how to caption this. Don't drive close to a red truck with a dog in the drivers seat.
This was East Glacier. Pretty much all of it.
We drove up to Browning. Not much there so we decided to try a different way to get back to East Glacier. The road less traveled. It was a beautiful drive with the mountains just off to our left.
The road was paved but not in great shape but we kept on going. I love adventures. We knew we were on the right track.
And then the turn to get back to East Glacier! Closed!!! Too much snow.
We really wanted to go on the narrow winding road but that would have to wait for another day. Back the way we came.
We headed back to the Inn and then decided to find another small eatery. We passed the Inn and West Glacier. Of course stopping to take more pictures along the way.
This looked like our kind of place. I walked up and opened the door and turn back around. Mike did the same. Loud and lots of locals drinking lots of beer. We wouldn't be hearing any new stories. We wouldn't even be able to hear each other. Next stop.
Perfect.
Small with the locals sitting at the bar. Good food too.
On the way back we were told to check out milepost 168. The mountains look like they are straight out of the Swiss Alps. We kept looking thinking we found them. These are not the mountains they were talking about but we thought they were. When we saw them we knew! Swiss Alps. No pictures because you couldn't get a good picture taking view.
Back at the hotel we were told about a long standing tradition at the Inn. When a passenger train goes by the workers go out and wave to the engineer and the passengers. Mike and Bo are waiting for the train.
Here it comes!
The engineer is waving you just can't tell in the picture. It was fun to participate in the tradition.
Wednesday morning and it is time to leave for the long drive home back to Spokane!
The drive home was uneventful for the most part. I was a little apprehensive about doing a u-turn on the highway and stopping in the lane, not on the side of the road, to take pictures of mule deer. The big truck coming up behind us wasn't a concern for Mike but it was for me. Just pull over a little on the shoulder. We will scare the deer Mike said. Well, you are scaring your wife and if I had to pick between a picture of deer and living a bit longer I would pick life. You can see we are not on the shoulder.
Deer are good at hiding. You can hardly tell they are there.
It was a great trip. Restful and relaxing. Except for the deer pictures. Spending time together, meeting new people and hearing their stories, taking pictures of majestic scenery and being away for a few days! It's Good to be Alive!!!
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