Wet Montana

Tonight we are in a motel in Helena, MT. Barrie and Kasey went down to the swimming pool. I am on the Internet for the first time in two days.

Barrie drove us over miles of the race route of the "Race to the Sky" today, out of Lincoln, Montana. It has never let up raining since we got here, and it is so beautiful and green.

Here is where I was this morning, on Huckleberry Pass, out of Lincoln, MT. It was so beautiful. We didn't go clear over. There was at least 8 inches here. We were almost to the top, but Barrie said there were steep switchbacks on the way down the other side. And we would have ended up back in Lincoln, anyway, so we turned around.

An interesting obstacle in the road. Well, almost an obstacle, anyway.

The "historic" Lincoln Inn, where we stayed last night. They didn't have all their rooms ready because of a wedding, so we had a room with just one double bed. They brought us a roll away, which wouldn't fit in the room, so Barrie took the mattress and put it on the bathroom floor.

Here is a view down the hallway from our room. There was one lamp in the room with a low wattage bulb - that was the extent of the light. I tried to read by the lamp, and Barrie read with her headlamp.

They did not have Internet Access, and they didn't even have a plug in for the computer , except by the bathroom sink.

I checked the door of the room across the hall - I was pretty sure no one was in there. They had not locked it. I used the bathroom, and took a towel, soap and the shampoo from our room and had a shower in there. I wiped the shower down, put the bathmat back up, and I'm sure they will never know I used it.

Stopped at the Copper Queen Saloon in Helmville this afternoon. What a neat place! Barrie has lots of friends in Helmville, and several of them were in there. We had tacos, and Kasey enjoyed it.