Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Road trip - Montana

106 – number of dear we saw on our way to our campsite
5 – number of times we had to turn around because we couldn’t find our camp ground for the life of us (at 9pm in the pitch black of back country Montana
1 – number of incorrect camp sites we stayed at because we were sick of looking for our real camp site
197 – number of cows we counted driving away from our campsite before we decided there were way too many cows to count.

Montana was pretty great, and I hope to spend more time there in the future. The only thing we really had time for was to find the camp site at Cooney State Park after we got off the freeway. We headed in the wrong direction, then the wrong direction 4 more times before stopping to find a camp site that was not actually ours. Hahaha…failure of planning well on my part. But, to give myself some credit, the website was super confusing and then the lady on the phone with the reservation place wasn’t much help either.
On our way to North Dakota the next day we stopped to freshen up, as there weren’t any bathrooms at the campsite. Where we stopped was gas station/casino/McDonalds…preeeety intense. To fully experience the awesomeness of this place I got a hashbrown and OJ and McDs, played $1 of slots in the casino and then asked for directions in the gas station. Classy way to start my morning.
We also stopped by the Crow Fair, one of the biggest powwows in the US. Although the fair had not started when we got there, a lot of the teepees were already set up. We stopped for some fresh fry-bread with honey and took a quick look at the Little Bighorn Battlefield.
I’ve always been really intrigued by the Native American people and culture. Maybe someday I’ll be a nurse practitioner to one of the Indian Nations…you never know J

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