Well, we decided we’d try Going to the Sun Road one more
time ~ but before leaving we found a really cool ministry ~ A Christian Ministry
in the National Parks (Encountering God in the Wonders of Creation) ~ It’s an
organization out of Denver Colorado and they normally hire seminary students to
work at the National Parks to offer services on Sunday. We attended the service and it was really
nice with a beautiful view of some of God’s creation right outside the
window. Larry did comment that it’s
probably the first time he’s attended church that was held in a “lounge/bar”
area.
The weather today looks perfect ~ Blue skies and white puffy
clouds, instead of the storm clouds that have been around for the last few days
~ We found out from some other travelers that if we had tried the road the
middle of last week we would not have been able to do it because it was closed
due to a rock slide.
So, we packed up our goodies and left the Prince of Wales
Hotel ~ As we were leaving I caught “critter motion” in the field next to the
hotel ~ It was a beautiful fox who looked like it had just caught
breakfast! Good start for the day!
We traveled back down to the Canadian crossing and this time
while waiting in line, I decided it would be a good idea to take a picture of
the Border Crossing sign, so I picked up the camera and took the picture. About a minute later, one of the Border
Guards comes walking towards the truck and I assume he’s going to take our
passports and expedite things ~ WRONG!
He came to my side of the truck ~ When I rolled down the window he asked
what I had taken a picture of and I told him ~ he said he needed to see the
picture so I showed it to him ~ He went on to explain that it was NOT acceptable
to take a picture of a government employee (they aren’t even allowed to have
Facebook pages according to him) ~ So I apologized and they let us back into
the US ;-}
Just before arriving at the East Entrance to Glacier, Larry
suddenly realized that with Franklin, our bellhop in Canada, talking so much as
we were putting our luggage in the truck, we totally forgot to check out of the
hotel and OK our breakfast charges on our bill ~ and they had old fashioned
keys and Larry had both of them in his pocket still! So we stopped at the St Mary’s Hotel where we
had stayed the previous day, and since all of the hotels/lodges in the two
national parks are owned by the same company, they helped us square it away and
said they would send the keys back to the hotel via the shuttle so they would
have them for the next guests.
Finally, we started over the Going to the Sun Road and it
was awesome weather. Like we told you in
a previous post, this is a 2 lane, narrow, winding road ~ much better drive
today than it had been during the storm!
And there was much lighter traffic, so it was a nice drive through some
gorgeous scenery ~ Going over Logan Pass we saw a small group of Mountain
Goats, including a young kid, who were grazing in the meadow near a small
waterfall ~ Speaking of waterfalls, the road had waterfalls at almost every
turn as the winter snows melted ~ in some places they water was just running
down the entire face of rock next to the road ~ The only drawback to driving
the road is that because of the short season that the road is open, they also
have a very short time to do repairs and they had a couple of areas where they
had the road down to a single lane.
After getting over the road, Larry commented that he would bet 1 in 3
people driving over that road had absolutely NO idea how wide their vehicle was
and shooting them should be legal for this short summer season!
After leaving the park we headed west and stopped for the
night in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.
L & P
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