Leg One Complete!!

The beauty of this country is second to none. Over the past week and a half Jon and I have travelled from the soaring heights of the Tetons to the vast expanses of the Montana plains, crossing the Great Divide 6 times.

The past few days, Jon and I have spent some time in Glacier National Park, aptly regarded as "the Crown of the Country." Glacier provided some new experiences for us, such as a blinding blizzard as we spun our wheels up Logan Pass, and Jon's experience of being on the recieving end of a charging Mountain Goat (I took pictures). All in all, it is impossible to do justice to the Majesty of Glacier with mere written words, it truly needs to be experienced first hand.

Another interesting aspect of the journey is the variety of folks that we meet along the way. It is amazing how so many people are genuinely interested in our story, and are willing to do anything to help us along our way. Sure, there are some exceptions to this rule (take for example our waitress in Cameron, MT, who probably spent her free time sucking lemons and strangling kittens, and made us spend the night in a asphalt factory), but almost everyone we have dealt with has had an interesting anecdote to share and good advice on the road ahead.

As I write this, we are sitting in a coffee shop in Whitefish, Montana, a truly exceptional town. We are about to embark on the second leg of our journey, heading west to Seattle (quite literally, the farthest we could possibly be from our final destination of Key West), where we will meet up with some old friends for coffee and other things Seattle. We'll try to update the site with some pictures between now and then.