After a great visit and meal with our friends (they grilled great big home-grown T-bones) Sunday night, we were up early and on the road Monday morning. Two long days of riding!! Monday we drove across the northern tier of eastern Montana on US Hwy 2. The landscape to start with was more of the Great Plains - just mile after mile of flat to rolling grass and ranch lands. After a hundred miles or so it became hilly again. LaVerne read in a book where they described the hills as looking like large blisters. Then we started seeing more and more farming - huge pastures with lots of cattle and horses, plus big fields with crops starting.
US Hwy 2 is two-lane all the way, but for the most part is in good shape and pretty smooth. We went thru Ft. Peck and Ft. Belknap Indian Reservations and several towns - a few of the larger ones were Wolf Point, Glasgow, Malta, and Chinook. It clouded up and somewhere around Wolf Point is started raining. Nothing heavy, but just a light rain off and on for most of the rest of the drive. There was one section where there was road construction for about 6 miles and they had completely taken up all the pavement. It was graveled, but with the rain, it was a muddy mess. Needless to say, the motorhome and Jeep both got muddy & filthy.
We spent Monday night in the Wal-Mart parking lot in Havre, MT after a drive of 330 miles - had a tremendous thunderstorm come through after we were settled in.
Today, Tuesday, we were up early and drove another 100 miles to Shelby, MT and then hit I-15N to the Canadian border. The border crossing was a piece of cake - no problems other than a fairly long line we had to wait through. The agent looked at our passports, took down our license number, asked a few questions, and sent us on our way.
From the border we were on Canada Hwy 4 north to Lethbridge, then on Hwy 3 for awhile, and then on Hwy 2 to Calgary. South of Calgary we took Hwy 22x west around the outskirts of Calgary, then Hwy 22 north to Cochrane, Alberta. Today was another day of driving in the rain - it started off sunny, but by Shelby, MT it had clouded up and then rained off and on the rest of the way. It was also pretty windy - kind of hard driving. The landscape across the southern portion of Alberta is mostly wide open (can see forever) farm lands. Huge hay fields, ranches, some crop farming, lots of cattle and horses - and off to the west some great views of the beginning of the Canadian Rockies.
After a long day - 376 miles - we checked into the Bow RiversEdge RV park in Cochrane for the night. Tomorrow we will be headed into Banff National Park and plan on spending several days around Banff, Lake Louise, and Jasper. Don’t know what the Internet access will be like there, so it may be a few days before another update.
Sorry - no pictures this time.
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