On our last day in Glacier, we went up to the northwest corner of the park. We actually exited the park for a while and drove up forest service roads just outside the boundary, then reentered the park and followed a very narrow, steep dirt road eventually leading to Bowman Lake. It really felt like the middle of nowhere for quite a while, then, suddenly, the road ended in a parking lot, and there was a composting toilet, and a bunch of people having picnics at a beach.
Polebridge, MT. Or Cicely, AK.
Rosie wearing her bathing suit for her 20s.
Water. Just for my dad.
Then we drove a very long haul down to Butte, MT, to stay in the Copper King Manion, built and owned by Willam Andrews Clark, a mining financier, MT senator, and one of the richest people in the world in the early 20th century. He basically founded the city of Las Vegas. Now one of his mansions is more or less and museum and a bed a breakfast.
Interestingly, one of his daughters was Huguette Clark, subject of what is said to be a very interesting book: http://tinyurl.com/p2majpt
Bed where we slept.
"A dresser"
The rest of Butte....has not a hell of a lot to recommend it....
The mansion was owned by various eccentrics after the Clark family sold it. One of them really, really, really liked penguins.
A very tall doorway.
We also happened by a historically significant drive-in restaurant.
Yeah...
Then we hauled it down through ID and back to Jackson, then back to Boston, and back to work, in short order.
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