After Missoula we returned to our trek across Montana on I-90.
While passing through the city of Butte, I happened to look up into the
mountains and noticed a glint of white on a ridgeline. When I focused my camera
on it, it appeared to be a massive white statue. WTF? Upon further Wikipedia
research it turned out to be
Our Lady of the Rockies, the second tallest statue
in the United States, after the Statue of Liberty. How random and cool is that?
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| Driving on I-90 towards Butte |
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| The Our Lady of the Rockies statue in Butte |
At first I was disappointed with Montana. I had heard all these wonderful things about how beautiful it is. The grandness of the mountains, looming over the huge meadows, strung with ribbons of flowing streams, and of course the never ending sky. I imagined the scenery of “
A River Runs Through It” (with shirtless Brad Pitts running around of course). The portion of I-90 that we’d driven so far did not live up to this image.
BUT THEN…then we drove a little further on I-90, crossed the Continental Divide, and turned onto a two lane road to get to Yellowstone. Finally, on this two lane road is where we found the real Montana. The horizon stretched out to meet the sky. Long, winding driveways ran from the road to massive thousand acre ranches, with large estates off in the distance. We drove through meadows as far as the eye could see, huge fields of yellow hay on gently rolling hills, grand mountains in the distance, and a river that flowed right along the road. All this, and a beautiful sunset made for a very picturesque drive.
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| Fields of hay |
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| Rolling meadows |
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| More rolling meadows |
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| A river runs through it! |
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| Sunset over the mountains in the distance |
I didn't get out my measuring tape to measure the sky, but it sure did seem bigger…
Happy Montana two lane road driving,
M.
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