Week Seventeen~Alaska Trip August 1-7

                                        Kallispell, Montana

We have settled into Glacier Pines RV Park quite nicely. The first couple of days we spent resting, doing errands and making plans. On Wednesday we took a trip through Glacier National Park.
We did not take the Red Bus Tour because we had errands to do when we got to the other side.
  The beginning of the ride was lovely but the views were difficult from the truck because the road is so tree lined on each side. There are plenty of pull offs so that you can read the signs and take plenty of pictures. We first saw McDonald Lake and falls.

  

 

Soon we started to climb UP and UP the mountain. The views were great.

Looking back down on where we have been…. 

There was a lot of construction but no one seemed to mind because it gave time to get out of the car and take some pictures and stretch.

I took about 200 pictures and weeded out some. I am not going to try to caption them all on the Picasa Album, just let the slide show go and travel through the park with us. There are views of glaciers and waterfalls everywhere. Unlike Jasper and Bannff, you don’t drive between the  mountains, but UP AND UP and through the mountains.

We saw mountain goats and a moose  

Saint Mary Lake going out was also beautiful.

To our surprise, when we got to St. Mary and tried to find a Post Office, we were shocked to find out that they did not have one! We had had two mail packages sent here. OOPS! We needed to rethink that! We initially thought they might have been returned to sender.

The next morning I did some sleuthing by phone. I called the St.Mary Lodge, because they do handle some mail. NOPE. She  suggested that I call Bapp. NOPE. He suggested that I call Browning PO. YEPPER! They had our packages. WHEW! So we drove through Glacier again and went to Browning to get our mail.

No, this is not the Post Office, but the common in Browning. We retrieved our mail and had an interesting drive back to Kalispell.

The land of the BIG SKY and wide open spaces! We will be here in Montana again next week, we just haven’t decided exactly where.
Glacier NP is much like the Canadian Rockies and Alaska. If you have the time just go to the Picasa Album and let it play. I wish I had a panoramic lens on my camera so that you could really get the feel of the majesty of the land. It is God’s country…….