Monday July 7th
2014
Cut Bank, MT –
Glendive, MT
430 miles, 7 hours, 10 minutes
434 miles, 7:45 am – 5:49 pm
Well, the best is behind us. The picture above basically
summarizes our day. Driving, driving, and driving. There was not much
to see or do. We left at a normal time (I had to register for the
fall classes at 5:00 am Montana time). Some clouds but mostly sunny.
We got few very short showers during the day. Bunch of small towns –
few houses and huge grain storage tanks next to the railroad. Mostly
run down and sad looking. One has the feeling that the time stopped
here thirty years ago or so. Strange. Town of Havre – nothing
there. Few rivers and creeks. Farms and farm land. Train track with
many cargo trains. Flat. Flat. Endless. Town of Malta – some
dinosaur museums (looked very small) that we did not visited. Bear
Paw Battleground museum. No idea what that was about - learning something new.
http://www.nps.gov/nepe/planyourvisit/bear-paw-battlefield.htm
It was quite large museum with “early years trinkets”, some
photographs, and documents. There was quite interesting and well done
movie about the Bear Paw Mountains battle. More sad stories about the
history of this country. They closed for lunch. A bit later we
stopped at some small town and had our picnic lunch in the park.
Again the feeling that time stopped here in 1960s. The rest of the
day we basically just drove. Few stops but nothing special or
spectacular. Some initial phone calls as we have to settle back home
and want to do some house work. Normal life, again. Long and tedious
day.
