Hello from Sheridan, Montana. We had a nice drive here from Hamilton where we were last night. We successfully stayed ahead of or aside of the front moving through Montana. Impressions from the drive: 
1. Montana has a lot of ranches and grain and hay fields. Also interesting rail fences with many different designs and gates.
2. Wow! forest fires burn large areas.
3. The drive through the mountains has lots of wild animals; we saw hundreds of Sandhill Cranes, Canada geese, a mixed bag of ducks, about 10 hawks, and four Osprey. We also saw several groups of Stone Sheep and some White Tail Deer.
4. All those things Alison and my grandparents had in their houses are now in antique shops in Montana.
5. You can see weather fronts from a long distance and we just learned from the weather channel that we are having ‘official’ rain. What is unofficial rain? 6. Finding a room for the evening is not a problem after Labor Day, even in very small towns. (Corollary to that is there are relatively few cars on the smaller roads.)
7. Buy gas in Montana, not Canada. The cheapest price in Alberta, $0.95 per liter, is much higher than $2.86 per gallon in Montana. Highest was in Yukon Territory at $1.80 per liter.
One of these days I’ll put together a blog of animal pictures on the trip so far. Alison is starting a new knitting project so I’m sure she will describe it in the future.
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