Finishing up our time in Glacier NP

   Yesterday Mark and I completed the famous drive - Going-to-the-Sun-Road starting at St. Mary (East side) and driving all the way to the Loop in the car - no RVs allowed.  Driving this road is simply magnificent, and a totally unforgettable experience. The fact that they could even build such a road is amazing - very good engineers and 20 years of very hard work!!!
   We stopped at the Logan Pass Visitors Center (6646 ft) where it still looks like winter with several feet of snow on the ground.  We  were traveling early enough in the morning that we could stop where ever we wanted to take photos. This is the area of the road that they have been working on to clear for traffic.  The scenery was spectacular!!! We took way too many photos...326 pictures yesterday alone on my camera - a new record!!!
    After lunch we drove south to an East side area of the park called Two Medicine - very primitive but also very pretty. There was a general store and a campground, and Two Medicine Lake. We also stopped and walked the trail to  Running Eagle Falls- very pretty.
   Today we drove back to Many Glacier Lodge to do a boat/hiking trip. We left the lodge and traveled by bat across Swiftcurrent Lake, hike 1/2 mile over a to Lake Josephine, get on another boat and travel across the lake to a hiking trail that took us 1 mile to Grinnell Lake/Grinnell Gacier. The trail to the glacier is still closed due to snow - but we did walk through some snow. Beautiful. Then we did it in reverse back to the hotel boat dock.
   Tomorrow we head in to Canada and the Waterton-Glacier National Park area for a couple of days before we move on the Calgery.  We will have cell service available for us with our phones, but no data package for Canada that we were willing to pay for, so our internet use is still a wait and see what we have and what our options are when we get there. We all ready know that gas is over $5.00 a gallon - so we are filling up before we leave here - of course we will need to fill up more than once!!!
   We are not sure how many posts we will be able to do in Canada - just keep checking back.