Sunday 17 June 2012

Not going to the sun

We were hoping to travel through Glacier National Park from west to east on a famous road called "The Going to the Sun Road" but it was closed in the middle due to snow drifts and avalanches and we could only travel the first 15 miles and then turn back. We then went to the east end and did the same from that end. One of the photos shows the poor state of the road leading to the east end which suddenly went from smooth Tarmac to potholed loose gravel. Bypassing the Going to the Sun road involved travelling through Essex (a very different place to the one near London with not a white stiletto in sight) but they did have a lodge called The Izaak Walton where we had lunch. It's a strange mix of hotel and museum as it was originally built to house rail workers in the winter and tourists in the summer. It is surrounded by what I took to be museum pieces of old rolling stock and engines only to find they had been converted to homes, presumably by railway enthusiasts. We passed what we took to be wild horses in the hills and stayed the night in a cabin/motel, quite comfortable despite looking like a garden shed!

1 comment:

  1. Amazing photos and looks like a truly epic trip
    Happy father's day.
    Scenery and wild life look amazing. Not sure about the furry jockstrap.

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