Montana Bound

  Our stay in Colorado has been enjoyable and comfortable, thanks to our friendly hosts Lauren and Matt.  My birthday was yesterday, May 31, and Lauren couldn't hold herself back from making a delicious strawberry rhubarb pie.  T'was the best pie I've ever had. Thanks again Lauren!  We had to continue our mission to Montana and Colorado was becoming very old very fast.
  We weren't sure if we were going to be able to drive I-90 all the way to, Bozeman, MT, our next stop on our journey back to Spotted Bear Ranch.  The town of Hardin, MT and the interstate running through was under a severe flood warning thanks to the Bighorn and the Little Bighorn Rivers flooding last week.  Luckily the interstate had become navigable  and we had a straight shot through Wyoming and into Montana via I-90.  Saw plenty of antelope, a few bucks.  It was perfect driving weather.  Every river or creek we traveled over was chocolate.  I-25 heads along Longmont up into Cheyenne, Wyo. and runs into I-90 just south of Sheridan.  We made it into Montana in 6 hours.

  After leaving Longmont at 7 am,  9 hours on the road and 3 stops later we made it to Bozeman.  Such a comfortable college town.  Surrounded by the Bridger mountains, the Gallatin and the Madison ranges, the Horseshoe Hills, and the Tobacco Root mountains.  The Gallatin and East Gallatin rivers, less than an hour from the mighty Missouri and its other two tributaries the Madison and Jefferson rivers, and only twenty minutes from the longest free flowing, undammed river in the lower 48 states; the Yellowstone.
  We met up with our buddy and past co-workers at Spotted Bear, Nick Larson, his fiance Jocelin, and their black lab Willard.  It was a long day of driving so after catching up and chowing down on some gargantuan elk burgers we hit the fart sack.

  The next day was our other co-worker, Morgan Cannons birthday.  We wanted to celebrate and  decided to try the Dirty Babcock Triangle (DBT) by hitting three bars on Babcock St. that are located within 150 feet of one another.  To make a very long story short, we only made it to one bar and had a blast.  I think we may have partied to hardy but you only turn 34 once, right Digger!?  
    
   Damn it feels good to be back in Montana. Even though were still 8 hours from where our journey finally ends it feels like we made it.