July 8th, Monday

Up and on the road heading to the US border. More prairie land, miles and miles. Kind of beautiful in its own way but give me a view of the water any time.

Crossed the border at Coutts, Alberta and headed south through along the 15 towards Great Falls, Helana, Butte and Bozeman. The road wandered across plains, thru mountain ranges that I called "the soft mountains". They were all rounded, sparsely covered in soft wood and a grass cover.

Cattle grazed, canola and grain crops, vacant farm houses, a few oil wells, sometimes a river following the road and every now and then we would climb a mountain but it was a gradual climb. Montana was what Bernie expected plains, hills, desert, trees, but no cowboys.

As usual rain and sun was the order of the day. Towards the end of the day we had two passes to go thru - Elk Park Pass and Homestake Pass which were both 2000 meters.

Found a campsite at a KOA campground near Bozeman just a couple of hours north of Yellowstone Park.