Sunday July 26th 2009
Sleep refused my company last night. Today was much a blur. The morning was lovely. My father woke us with coffee and OJ delivered to our van in the parking lot of the Many Glaciers Hotel. We woke slowly and then joined them on the deck overlooking a azure blue lake with pinacles and rocky spires dressed in glacier white. We chatted with the parental units and their friends over coffee and microwave breakfast sandwiches. It couldn't have been better. The rest of the day was for napping in the car as Ahnna drove us south through Montana. Before sleep overtook me I remember Driving through the foothills south of glacier. The sparcley pined hills were frosted greenish brown with grasses and bespeckled with rocks as tall as five or six feet that seemed to have been sprinkled over the hills as candy would be sprinkled on a cupcake. We pulled over early to sleep at 5pm. We drove up a dirt road looking for a lake that was on the map, but which we never found. The misquitoes were worse than I have seen in many years and we learned to rearrange our van for sleeping accomodations while in it without opening the doors. We watched a movie entitled Lesbian Vampire hunters. Thats, Lesbian Vampire Hunters, not, Lesbian Vampire Hunters. It was everything it could have been and recognized its own idiocy and we laughed heartily. We slept well.
Thursday, September 3, 2009
USA RoadTrip Journal #1
Saturday July 25th 2009
We lie in our mini-van home for the first night of our great American adventure. The rumble of thunder roles over the mountains around us as the sky blazes with the blue grey illumination of the lightning. We are in the parking lot of the Many Glaciers Hotel. The rain drums the roof with recklas abandon. Our day has been a slightly hectic one. Of course we forgot something at home when we left yesturday to begin our journey by traveling to Uncle Johns (where we were treated to frog leg appetizers and a half a chicken BBQ dinner); the battery charger and extra battery for our camera. Rather necessary for a journey through such incredible landscapes as we have planned.
We waited ths morning as my amazing grandmother brought it to us and then joined us for breakfast. We finally set out at 10:30. Some beautiful view points along Lake Pond Orielle, then driving through the valley of the river by that same name looking up at rocky mountains and piney bluffs. Arriving at Glacier around 6pm we took the Going to the Sun Road, upon entering the park we saw a black bear along the side of the road and then raced the shadows as they crawled up the mountains and watched as the sun decended beyond the horizon over the Glacial Mountains, lighting the sky with mild yellows and pinks. I was slightly worried when the gas guage showed less than a quarter tank on the way up the moutnains. Luckily it was more a product of the slope of the road than an actual decrease in gas. My pitiful words could never capture the immense beauty of the those rocky cliffs and spires, Have a look at our photobucket page, or on facebook, but i warn you, its nothing like being among them and feeling how small you are in comparison.
We lie in our mini-van home for the first night of our great American adventure. The rumble of thunder roles over the mountains around us as the sky blazes with the blue grey illumination of the lightning. We are in the parking lot of the Many Glaciers Hotel. The rain drums the roof with recklas abandon. Our day has been a slightly hectic one. Of course we forgot something at home when we left yesturday to begin our journey by traveling to Uncle Johns (where we were treated to frog leg appetizers and a half a chicken BBQ dinner); the battery charger and extra battery for our camera. Rather necessary for a journey through such incredible landscapes as we have planned.
We waited ths morning as my amazing grandmother brought it to us and then joined us for breakfast. We finally set out at 10:30. Some beautiful view points along Lake Pond Orielle, then driving through the valley of the river by that same name looking up at rocky mountains and piney bluffs. Arriving at Glacier around 6pm we took the Going to the Sun Road, upon entering the park we saw a black bear along the side of the road and then raced the shadows as they crawled up the mountains and watched as the sun decended beyond the horizon over the Glacial Mountains, lighting the sky with mild yellows and pinks. I was slightly worried when the gas guage showed less than a quarter tank on the way up the moutnains. Luckily it was more a product of the slope of the road than an actual decrease in gas. My pitiful words could never capture the immense beauty of the those rocky cliffs and spires, Have a look at our photobucket page, or on facebook, but i warn you, its nothing like being among them and feeling how small you are in comparison.
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