Spokane, Idaho, and Montana

Stuart the Buffalo looking out the car window

Hey :) we are at some Motel in Bozeman, MT. It's called The Royal 7 Budget Inn. Pretty nice for a motel actually. The man who checked us in was in a super bad mood and messed up our booking so he gave us an upgrade (a suite with two beds) for 55.00 dollars, which was nice of him. But one cool thing is that we have wireless Internet, for free, and I thought we would be away from any sort of technology, haha.

We had a nice morning at Shannon and Georges. Shannon took us to this place called The Spot for breakfast. It's actually an old garage that was converted into a coffee shop. We had some amazing bagels and sun dried tomato and pesto cream cheese. mmmm sooooo good. Then we went back to the house and packed up the car. We said goodbye to Shan and started on our way. I'm really happy that they had us stay with them, it was so good to spend the first night of our trip with good friends of mine, really helped the transition out of Washington state.

Mark packing up the car in Spokane

So, we passed into Idaho and then out of Idaho and realized that I was driving my car on empty. I remember looking down at the gas gage and checking to see how much further I could go and my car gage said that I could drive 4 more miles. I started to freak out because we were in the mountains, the middle of nowhere, but we sound a tourist station so we exited the highway and turned off the car and went in to ask where the nearest gas station was. I said that I was on empty. She told us to go back into Idaho to the nearest gas station. It was six miles to get back to the station. I was wondering if we could make it, but we said thanks for the directions and drove off to the gas station, it really was our only option. We made it, thankfully! I was super happy that we weren't stranded on the road with all the big rigs whizzing by. But the funniest part of the entire story is Mark had a CD that he burned playing in the stereo. And just as we pulled off at our exit for the gas station, and we are talking in the middle of the mountains in a totally run down mill town with no name, "Dulling Banjos" came on the stereo, I said that the song was very appropriate and we both cracked up. So we got our gas and payed the toothless guy at the counter.

Montana, big sky country

Then we drove back into Montana. We stopped for dinner at the Old Post Pub in Missoula. Great food and a chill atmosphere. Then drove on to Bozeman.

So that gets ya up to date :) Tomorrow: Yellowstone.

I miss you all and thanks for the texts and phone calls today :)