July 10 // Whitefish, Montana

For the most part, today was to be an uneventful day — leave Yellowstone at the crack of dawn with a bagel and bottle of water to go, and make our way towards Whitefish, Montana. Our stay here was to be a quick oasis between our second and third legs of our camping experience, a night before our day in Glacier National Park tomorrow.

Had it not been for the road construction, we would have been well ahead of schedule, but still managed to roll in around 3 pm. That gave us plenty of time to shower up, take a nap, and get moderately refreshed before dinner.

We ate at a great little Montana-based pizza chain called Mackenzie River Pizza Company, a rustic decorated place with great tasting pizza, good locally-brewed beer, and quick, friendly service. I had a two pints of their hefeweizen and enjoyed it thoroughly — a perfectly crafted hefeweizen with just a touch of hopps flavor left on the palette to remind you that this is a hand-crafted brew and not something just mass-manufactured out of some warehouse in some big city.

After dinner, Natalie split off for a little “me” time, she went back to Kalispell to go to Target and Borders and I stayed back here to upload photos and update my blog. That was going fine until a wind storm blew through here and knocked out the power to the entire vicinity and halted my plans to upload all my photos through yesterday. The power eventually came back on around 11:00 here and I resumed my uploading. Plenty of photos to go. So if you were looking at photos from the past couple nights, check again in the morning. The ones from yesterday and the day before should be up by morning.

Not a whole lot else to say about today — basically a travel day and rest/recoup before another day of camping. Only, it was a bit odd not having power in a hotel. Quite odd. At least we had our flashlights. O,o

July 10, 2008, 11:36 pm

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