Montana – First Day

We are all suffering from internet withdrawal. The wi-fi here at the hotel only worked this morning and the two teen-agers goofed around with my computer to keep themselves amused.

There is no tv but if I count everything that we’re missing to what we are used to having from our homes, then this is no vacation. I told my aunt, we are supposed to be communing with nature and immersing ourselves in its beauty.

Of course our enthusiasm is a bit dampened by the intermittent showers.

Driving from Missoula yesterday, we had a mix of weather – at some point it was sunny, then it would drizzle which gave me enough practice to get used to the various knobs of our rental car.

Avis gave us a very new car with just 20 miles in it. So new that we must be the first renters and now the car suddenly looking dirty and battered from all that rain – it is now covered in mud I just want to give it a thorough washing from the many lakes we passed by.

The first time I came this way, we drove from Seattle so my cousins who happened to be my hosts, drove me here. It was beautiful then but we must be passing a different way and am seeing the place with the eyes of a first timer.