Today's drive was great, even through the massive thunderstorm that's been chasing us for days. We got up and were out of the hotel at 7:50 am. The drive went great. We got here at 5pm after only 9 hours on the road. We have now passed 2 time zones and 7 states. It was amazing how the scenery changed so drastically from one mile to the next. We began in North Dakota with small rolling hills, rather bland it was clean and pretty but unremarkable. Now Montana is another ball game. It began of course much like N. Dakota but very quickly the rolling hills gave way to a hilly, rocky, pasture like environment that is rather hard to describe (we have included
some pics but they don't do it justice) there were cows as far as the eye could see and there appears to be no fences (there is) for over 2 hours of driving at 130km/hr (the speed limit) we saw no house, no driveway, no telephone pole, nothing. We probably passed 15 cars all day, no gas stations, nothing. It was beautiful and lush. The further in we got the rockier things got and we started to see prong horned antelopes by the dozens, they were everywhere. Then we reached the badlands (pics included)
the colour of the rock would start a deep clay red and end up a soft white with shades from browns to grays to even purples all the way up, they are truly unique. Then all of the sudden mountains, everywhere, mountains at this point we were 3500 ft above sea level. Then suddenly everything leveled out and was flat, it was really strange, being surrounded with mountains and then I guess we were on top 
and everything went flat, green but flat. Great Falls is a good size city with 60,000 people, the largest city we have seen since Minneapolis. Hopefully the drive to Spokane, Washington goes well. Today certainly did.
some pics but they don't do it justice) there were cows as far as the eye could see and there appears to be no fences (there is) for over 2 hours of driving at 130km/hr (the speed limit) we saw no house, no driveway, no telephone pole, nothing. We probably passed 15 cars all day, no gas stations, nothing. It was beautiful and lush. The further in we got the rockier things got and we started to see prong horned antelopes by the dozens, they were everywhere. Then we reached the badlands (pics included)
the colour of the rock would start a deep clay red and end up a soft white with shades from browns to grays to even purples all the way up, they are truly unique. Then all of the sudden mountains, everywhere, mountains at this point we were 3500 ft above sea level. Then suddenly everything leveled out and was flat, it was really strange, being surrounded with mountains and then I guess we were on top 
and everything went flat, green but flat. Great Falls is a good size city with 60,000 people, the largest city we have seen since Minneapolis. Hopefully the drive to Spokane, Washington goes well. Today certainly did.
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