Leaving Montana

Butte is an interesting town.  The streets are very narrow and the delivery trucks park in the center of the street.  With cars lining the sides, it made it very challenging to maneuver the coach.

The old buildings still have the original printing like Sheep Sheering Union office, and the mines still display the old equipment.

On Highway 93 there is an "animals bridge" over the highway.  I didn't get a chance to take a picture, but it was a wide grass-like overpass for deer, etc. to safely cross over the highway.  I thought that was pretty cool considering all the deer I have seen along the highways.

The Museum of the Plains Indian contains a superb collection of costumes, accessories and dioramas that detail the lifestyles of 11 tribes of the norther plaines before the arrival of white settler in the 1800s.






The Old West comes to life through the brush and sculpture of famed western artist Charlie Russell at the Charles M. Russell Museum Complex in Great Falls. The museum contains the world's largest collection of Russell's work, his original log-cabin studio and his Great Falls home.

 The Great Falls of the Missouri and the Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail Interpretive Center -

"...whin my ears were saluted with the agreeable sound of a fall of water and advancing a little further, I saw the spray arrise above the plain like a collumn of smoke ... which soon began to make a roaring too tremendous to be mistaken for any cause short of the great falls of the Missouri ... " Captain Meriwether Lewis

Loved this museum - very well done, but especially liked the excerpts from the journals of Lewis and Clark.

The Roe River:  World's Shortest River: about 201 ft. 

 

Fort Benton

Cut Bank penguin

A couple of interesting things to note as I moved into Alberta, Canada - First, the Mountie wasn't going to let me cross; it took an hour before he finally relented.  The issue was that I didn't have a "permanent" US residence so how could they be sure I wouldn't just stay in Canada?  I've never had that issue before.  He didn't even ask if I had any produce.  😀

Second, when you use your credit card in Canada, you have to sign the receipt - only US citizens have to sign because our credit card companies require the signature; no other country does.  So, I'm paying for my meal and I remind the waitress that I need to sign as I'm from the states.  Her comment:  I knew you were from the states when you asked for unsweetened tea; we don't serve it that way in Canada and only people from the states order it that way.  OK, I'll stop asking for it then.😃