Missoula, Montana

Pulled out of Fort Hall, Idaho this morning, only trouble we had was getting Buddy to quit spitting back his pill that we shove down his throat.  We started at the beginning of the summer trip with a half pill - total bleemed him out.  Not good.  Now we have it down to 1/4 of a pill - tiny - and it makes it hard to make sure he swallows it.  But it works, no barfing, no peep until 5 minutes after the truck is shut off and out he runs, screaming at me!  And I do mean scream.  Vocal.

The drive was uneventful, drove up Interstate 15 into Montana, followed it along various mountain ranges, crossed over the Continental Divide 2 different times, and jumped on Interstate 90 going west in Butte.  Saw lots of snow capped mountains, even though the outside temperature is very hot - 95 when we got in - the rivers and streams were racing by from the snow melt.  Some real pretty scenery.

A very large city complex - near Idaho Falls

Not sure what these red flowers were

Reminded me of a church

In all directions - snow capped mountains

Railroad bridges over various rivers

Crossed numerous rivers, saw ranchers herding their cattle, some really strange looking buildings.  Always in the distance was snow capped mountains.  Beautiful and desolate and very green.  Old bridges, old abandoned structures.  Imagined that some heavy snow comes through the area just north of Idaho into the Montana border.

Continental divide - welcome to Montana!

And lilac flowers were everywhere 

Horse person herding cattle

And the rear guard - plus 2 Aussie dogs yipping at the cow's heels

Fields of yellow flowers

Recognized Clark's Reservoir - visited near here 4 years ago when we
climbed up andover the Lemhi Pass (Lewis and Clark's route of 1805)

We are in Missoula until Sunday morning.  We are spending the day, Friday, with Sharon, a neighbor from our winter home - Picacho Peak, she is work camping in a small town north east of Missoula and will be good to catch up.

One big buffalo (tatanka) up on the hill!

A hair-pin turn - lots of people hit the wall on this turn

Very near Missoula