Day 58 Week 9, Monday 16 June 2025

A day off in Missoula Montana! Great weather today. Staying in a Days Inn, not bad comfie bed, hot shower, what more could you want?? After breakfast Mel, Chet and I walked up to the big “M” on the side of Mount Sentinal. It was built of rocks in 1908 representing the University of Montana and later rebuilt in concrete. You get a beautiful view of the town from there and see where we are going tomorrow across Lola Pass and the Bitterroot Mountains. I walked in to town to the Post Office to pick up a package from the Anestas- a package of Pringles and some other goodies for the road and a nice green bicycle piece of art created by my grand-daughter Beatrix with no doubt a little help her artful dad. Cheered me up- starting to look forward to getting back home after 2 months on the road! I got a haircut at Paula’s- much needed after 2 months sprouting of hair- I was starting to look like a grass head! And I did laundry- my one set of street clothes got washed for the first time! I feel like a new man. Had a terrific lunch at a French brasserie, the Porte Rouge, a French Dip sandwich with fries and two glasses of crisp cold Chardonnay. Delicious. After that and wandering around the old town a bit I had to take a nap! Ahhhh it is nice having a day off. We got together for dinner at a pizza place in town and then got ice cream at Big Dipper Ice Cream on the University Side of town. Stuffed!