Road Trip and Meeting Blog Readers; Glacier. NP

Today we decided to make our way up and over Going to Sun Road to visit with fellow full-timers' Peter and Patty, who have been on the road full-time since 99. They are camp hosting in the Many Glaciers Campground on the eastern end of Glacier National Park.

We stopped along the road to get this self portrait with Jackson Glacier in the background. Don't you just love the self-timer?

Another shot of Jackson Glacier. This is the one Al Gore talks about disappearing completely within 15 years in "Inconvenient Truth".

There was a huge fire in the St Mary's area 2 weeks ago. We passed through the area on the way back to West Glacier. The fire devastated 32,000 acres of forest! If you enlarge the picture and look real hard at the mountains in the back you can see smoke from hot spots that are still burning. They were much clearer in person. A completely different experience seeing this type of devastation in person, then on the news or in the paper.

This is the road to Many Glacier campgrounds. It sits just below the glacier in the background. It would have been great to stay there for a couple of days.

Patty and Peter were great to talk to . We hung out for a couple of hours and shot the breeze on a number of subject. I wish I could give you a link a journal for them. However, according to Peter, "we had an on-line journal once, I just don't remember where we left it." Although they've only been full-time since 99, they have been camphosting summers in Glacier for 16 years, can you blame them!?

-Rich & Laura-