Back in USA

Sunday we made surprisingly good time.  We would like to cut back to shorter driving days of 200 to 250 miles, but with an early start, minimal traffic (our direction), and efficient border crossings we crossed back into the US by mid-afternoon and arrived at Dee and Andy’s house just outside of Glacier Park by late afternoon.  It was a 300-mile day of mostly 2 lane roads through the mountains.  Our cell phones recognized the border and alerted us to e-mails within ½ mile of leaving the border station.  We are back among the “wired”.  We’ve been gone for over 60 days: 35 in Alaska, 27 in Canada (both coming and going), and more getting to and from the border.

We met Dee and Andy last winter on our work project in Arizona.  They had us park in front of their house in Columbia Falls, MT, where we stayed for 2 nights.  We had a couple of errands to run on Monday so they showed us around and Paige found another yarn shop.  We had such a great time with them!  Here we are having a late lunch/early dinner:

On Tuesday, it was back to normal: us on the road again, and them continuing on preparing for their next company later this week.  We drove US2 around the southern edge of Glacier Park, out to Browning, and south to Great Falls.  The geography changed dramatically.  Here are 3 shots taken in less than an hour:

Now it is time to catch up with family and friends by phone and emails while we head for Minnesota.