Camping Bliss

Cal & I took a "hippie trip" to Montana a few weeks ago and I am just now getting around to posting some pictures.

We turn the van into our little "home" by throwing down a mattress in the back and I put up curtains for privacy and even hang up pictures on the van walls!  LOL  We love it.

We headed to the Carway  crossing Friday night and we made it to the border with 15 minutes to spare before they closed for the night!  We drove into St. Mary, Montana and found a secluded place to park the van to sleep for the night.  When we woke up, this was the view from where we parked!

Now I think I could get used to a view like that!

We decided to go to Kalispell so we could get some provisions at Wal-Mart; which is about a 2 and 1/2 hour drive, but we took our time and did some major sight seeing on the way.  That is one of the nice things about get aways in the van, we are not on anyones time table but our own.

Waterfalls, rivers, sweeping views, mountain peaks...the list goes on of the beauty you can see on the way.

On the way back to St. Mary in the evening we decided to turn down a road we had not gone down before and ended up at Two Medicine Lake.  It was gorgeous there!!  There is an old lodge there that they have converted into a "store" and gift shop for visitors, but other than that, there is nothing there but beauty.

We stayed here for quite a while and took in the views and then I made us "dinner" which was just plain old turkey sandwiches, but I swear they tasted better as we ate them with the view of the mountains and lake before us!  On the way out of Two Medicine Lake we were driving kinda slow cuz I told Cal I just had this feeling that we might see some wildlife...and sure enough, for the first time in my life I saw a BLACK BEAR in the wild!!!  We were in the van, and the bear was a safe distance off, but in all the excitement I did not manage to get a picture...so you'll just have to imagine a beautiful black bear eating grass in a meadow.

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We camped at Johnson's Campground that night and the next morning went out to breakfast at a small cafe.  Decided to drive around a bit more and did some hiking.  Just a really great day.

The trip was short, but so worth it.  We plan to go again and again. 

Here are a few more pictures of why we love it there so much.

We just had a really great time on our trip to Montana, and we hope to make many more in the years to come.  It is pure camping BLISS.....