Big Sky Country

The last destination on this summer tour was Montana. Fairmont Hot Springs was the first stop, which was filled with tons of good food and lots of just sitting (a much need thing). And I mean you can't well go to Montana and not order a steak the size of your head.

Fairmont has a ton of pools which are filled with water cooled down to various temperatures from the hot springs. But here is a photo of a stream I took there which has nothing to do with anything because no one needs to see a photo of me in a swim suit, or flopping out of a water slide, or the brilliant red shade my back turned after too many hours in the sun.

After the Fairmont was a brief drive and short stay outside Helena at the log cabin of a family friend. (Resting up for the long haul back to Seattle the next day.) For a Montana summer it was clear and mild in temperature - perfect. This is the view of Lone Tree from the cabin, the ever so aptly Montana named hill in the distance with the single, lone tree a top it.




A true benefit of being out in the hills with no city lights or other people around are the stars! It just so happened to be a full moon the night we were there and the bright star in the sky wasn't a star at all. I took this photo as the moon was rising (exploring yet another setting on my camera). The single bright dot in the upper right side is Jupiter! And looking through a telescope, I could see the planet and four of its moons!! Way too cool!


Now the long haul home to rest. I'm looking forward to not having to fish around the bottom of my bag every night for my toothpaste...at least for a bit.