Polson/Flathead Lake, MT

Arrived here early on Monday afternoon. We have a beautiful grassy site with a great view of the Flathead Lake. We spent the afternoon sitting in the shade reading and watching a crew wash the 5th wheel trailer at the next site. Two of the crew were teen girls, and they giggled and gabbed their way around 2/3 of the trailer. Had a campfire Monday night but the marshmallows were so old they wouldn't even brown! Note to self: BUY NEW MARSHMALLOWS!

Tuesday we left Polson at 7 and drove up to Glacier National Park. We drove the Going-To-The-Sun road from the West entrance all the way to the East Entrance at St. Mary's. It's a 50+ mile trip from one end of the park to the other. It took us about 3.5 hours, as we stopped often to take pictures. To add to the problem, there is a lot of construction occurring with traffic taking turns on the narrow, one lane road. I hate heights, and hugging the right side of the road with no guard rails caused many white-knuckled moments! We wanted to stop at the Logan Pass Visitor's Center on the Continental Divide, but the parking lot was jammed. If we come again next summer, we'll arrive at 7 a.m. and head there first! The drive back from the East Entrance to the West Entrance didn't take nearly as long.

Today we visited two museums -- Miracle of America Museum in the morning/early afternoon and the Polson Flathead Museum in the afternoon. The first museum had loads of materials, but they were not displayed well, and it boasted 35 buildings outside. We were disappointed in the condition of the exhibits and found the museum has evolved into a dumping ground for everyone's parents' castoffs. The Polson Museum while smaller, was much better organized.