Day 9

Day 9: 6/27/10

Start: Glacier National Park
End: Missoula, MT

Today's miles: 218
Total miles: 1,940

Marriage status: Pretty good, except one small tiff when we were tired at the end of the day.

Passed through: Going to The sun Road in Glacier National Park, and Flathead Lake

Today's notes:

Today was just sort of a work horse day. We packed up our campsite in Glacier, ate breakfast, and headed south for the first time on the trip. Once again we were lucky with the weather and did not need our rain gear.

The first part of the drive took us down Going to the Sun Road in Glacier National Park. This road takes you the entire width of the park, and we crossed it from east to west. We were lucky we could even take this road because they just opened it for the season last Wednesday. This road is beautiful. Glacier lakes, snowcapped mountains, glaciers, waterfalls, green forest, the whole deal.

After that our drive took us along Flathead Lake, and that lake is huge. It seemed like we were by it forever. But before we even got passed the lake we pulled over because we were both fighting feeling pretty tired. We got a fair amount sleep the night before, but we think we were tired because of the hiking we did the two days before. So we pulled over, drank some caffeine and continued on our way. We made it to Missoula, MT around 6:00 and found a KOA campground and got a cabin for the night. Then we ordered pizza, did some laundry, and watched a hilarious episode of South Park about Harley riders. It's called "The F Word", and if you don't care for really loud motorcycles you will love it (It's downloadable on iTunes).


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