Going to the Sun Road

Going to the Sun Road, Glacier National Park.

 

The morning was already warming when we checked out of Pine Lodge at about ten this morning. There was very little traffic on the highway until we arrived at the entrance to Glacier National Park. Bob had remembered his senior National Parks membership card, so we got into the park for free, not a bad way to start our magical day in the park.

The road is lovely and serene, despite the large number of people in Glacier on this holiday weekend. We stopped regularly along the route to enjoy the majestic peaks, the contrasting textures, the colors. Because much of the beauty is simply along the road, where there's no place to pull over, I took a lot of pictures from the moving car.

We spent about an hour at Logan's Pass Visitors' Center, where two or three bighorn sheep were resting on the side of the mountain. Bob has such good eyesight that he could see them without binoculars. I had trouble even with the binocs, but good a few pictures anyway. I like my 18X zoom!

I had wanted to stay in St. Mary's but Bob had correctly surmised that it would be too early in the day to stop. Instead we had a poor lunch in the foothills (rather reminiscent of Toby's at Hinckley, midway between St. Paul and Duluth) and got back in the car. After one wrong turn, we progammed the GPS to a new destination, Calgary.

We somehow missed the single rest stop on our journey and were glad to stop at High River, the hometown of Canada's 19th Prime Minister, Joe Clark.  We checked into the Ramada (nice hotel, awful area full of neon signs) and had a light supper at Subway. Enjoyed a swim in a great new pool.