Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Up early this morning but didn’t get on the road until after 8. It was another long day of driving across the Great Plains, rolling and relatively treeless country, which some people find boring, but it has its own charm in my view.
Before we left the campground we met some fellow RV-ers from Michigan who are also heading to Alaska. They were from the Houghton-Hancock area, so the change in climate won’t be much different for them.
About noon we crossed into Montan’s Big Sky country, where we gained another hour and also had our first view of mountains (see pic). No snow-capped peaks yet, but by tomorrow we’ll have plenty of those. Looks like our planned drive through Glacier National Park will have to be postponed until our return trip as we are informed the plow crews are still trying to fight their way through 30-foot snow avalanches and aren’t making much progress. Oh well, it’s ONLY mid-June!
We found a simple little campground for the night which sits in a grove of trees in the middle of a vast expanse of praire about four-miles south of Havre (pronounced HAV-er), Montana. Good night.