30 May 2012, Cottonwood Inn and RV Park, Glasgow, MT

We woke up this morning to 39 degrees outside. At least it was sunny and the wind had died down over night. It didn’t take long to get on our way as we hadn’t unhooked from the truck. As is our usual weather it seems, it was overcast and rainy off and on all day, but it did warm up to the upper 50’s and even got up to 64 this afternoon.

Today we saw the Big Sky from the road and the Badlands in Theodore Roosevelt Nation Park.

               Big Sky

                 Badlands


We drove longer today than we had planned. We first planned to spend the night in Glendive, MT, but it was still early, only about 1:00, but the driver wasn’t too tired, so we decided to keep going rather than sit around there all afternoon. Glasgow is where Lenny was born and I hadn’t been back here since we had left when he was about 3 months old. Jim had been stationed at Glasgow AFB and was discharged in November, 1964, so it’s been a “few” years since I was here. Within minutes of coming into town, I found the house we had lived in. Larry wanted to fill the tank right away, so we went into town, he didn’t see the diesel pumps at the first gas station so went on another block or two and pulled into another one. We had lived in a little rental house on the alley behind a gas station just a half block off the main drag.  As we pulled into the pump I looked between buildings and said “I think that’s it”. It was! I walked around to the alley and snapped a couple of pictures.