I love Montana

Today was a humbling day. Nature can have this effect on people. Whenever I go to such an astounding place, I feel very small, I realize that my problems are insignificant before such magnificency and perfection such as Mother Nature.

Montana is THE state so far. It is even more beautiful than I expected it to be. We started the day with bright sun and blue sky, moved into fog (to the point we could see a few feet ahead of us) and then cloudy. The we started going higher and higher and higher and the sun shone bright and clear again.

We stopped at a real road stop (not the McDonalds type) and everyone stopped talking as we walked in, like in a cowboy movie hehehe. The kitchen even had the old fashioned saloon doors.

Look at the hay rolls... We called them cow sushi (hehehe)

The open fields gave way to hills and canyons and then to the majestic mountains. And then we got to the Rockies. Oh my God, that is all I have to say.

We then took a shortcut through Wyioming that saved us about 70 miles and put us right in the middle of Yellowstone Park. And I really lost it. There are many pictures and videos from our short trip through the park, so Jos did his magic and combined them all together in one single video so that you can see it in sequence. It is unbelievably beautiful and very very humbling.

We saw Elks and Buffalos and forest devastated by wild fire. We went 7,000 feet high and our ears clogged. We saw weird looking bugs that made funny rattling noises, waterfalls and creeks and rivers. We had delicious ice cream and bought souvenirs. We did not want to leave.

The greys had fun with the bugs and left their mark on Yellowstone too, if you know what I mean :-).

Here is Lady, taking a comfy nap

And here is Shooter, as usual, looking around and checking where we are:

But we had to, so we are now in Idaho and we have one more night and two days to go. I am looing forward to getting to my new home and setting roots down. It is fun to travel but it is comforting to go home.