Road Trip to Glacier Day 5: Going to the Sun Road Eastbound

Travel: Date: July 13, 2021 As I have mentioned many times about this trip, my hope was to find a lot of trains to photograph. That hadn’t worked out as planned but we did see some beautiful sites. This day’s trip was to go through Glacier National Park and spend two nights in East Glacier.… Continue reading Road Trip to Glacier Day 5: Going to the Sun Road Eastbound

Road Trip to Glacier Day 3: Inland NW Rail Museum

When you read the future posts on our August trip to Santa Cruz, you’ll be able to compare and contrast vacations I plan and those Carla plans. My goal on this trip was to follow the old Great Northern railroad route from Leavenworth, Washington to East Glacier, Montana. On our fourth day we had a short drive from Leavenworth to Couer d’Alene, Idaho.
The fast way would have been to take I90, but that route doesn’t parallel the train route so we took the more scenic route along US Highway 2.
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