Heading to our first "real" destination

Heading from Billings, Montana to Great Falls on Thursday.  "Amber waves of grain and purple mountains majesty" had to be written for this part of the country.   To be able to see as far as your eyes can see is just unreal for us.  Today's sign offerings were Elk crossing and caution for Amish buggies.

We stopped in Great Falls for the night.  The campground had a wonderful nature trail.  Every night for 24 years, this older couple has come to the campground and sung for the campers.  They sang bluegrass and most any other requests that were made.  They sang a "Carolina" song for David and I.  We were really outnumbered as there were far more Canadians than people from the US.

We left Friday morning headed to St. Mary's. Ran into smoke from the Lola Creek fires.  When we got to St. Mary's there was still smoke in the Glacier mountains.

We saw a "real" cowboy on his horse and he had his dog with him.  They were herding cattle.

In Etheridge, Montana we met a truck that cracked our windshield in 2 places!  First causality of our trip.

We saw only 2 police officers on this entire leg of the trip!

 There were free ranging cattle and horses as we made our way to St. Mary's campground.

 Nature trail at Great Falls.

 Sagebrush

 Loved this sign

 The terrain was rocky when we started out from Billings.

Our first glimpse of the mountains