We left our campground at Glacier National Park on yet another hot day and headed towards Missoula, Montana.  We didn’t have any particular reason to go there except just to hang out a few more days in Montana.  Along the way we passed through farmland with many signs advertising cherries for sale as we passed one cherry orchard after another.  We continued to marvel at the large lakes, in particular Flathead Lake, which is the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi and originated from an ancient massive glacier.  All but the northern tip of Flathead Lake is part of the Flathead Indian Reservation.

We arrived at our campground, a delightful private campground owned by Jim and Mary.  The office looked like a little fairy tale cottage with beautiful flowers growing alongside a white picket fence.  Mary said her husband plants the flowers from seeds and all throughout the park were little flower gardens.  We parked the RV in a nice spot under some shade trees and spent a relaxing two days at Jim and Mary’s.  One evening I caught a glimpse of a little black bunny as he scurried along one of the flower gardens.

One day we drove into downtown Missoula which had the usual box stores and restaurants.  I wanted to drive down Main Street which was smaller than we expected and didn’t have the western flair we thought it might.  We did a grocery run and I did some laundry at Jim and Mary’s super clean laundry facilities.

It was a wonderful relaxing two days in Missoula after the crowds, traffic, heat and rush to take in everything at Glacier.