Our journey began on Friday morning (June 18) as we drove to I-90 and pointed the van east. We drove through Ellensburg and Spokane, then left our Evergreen State behind. Idaho has beautiful scenery, as we saw Lake Couer d'Alene, plus a little bit of potato farmland in our brief drive through and then it was on to Montana. The Big Sky State is magnificent: lots of rolling ranchland. We drove past Missoula and made it to Butte that night.
Mel's not fond of Butte because it's a huge copper mining town and the stripped hillside isn't too picturesque, but we really didn't want to push on to Bozeman. We had a quick dinner and hit the bunks. (OK, they were really hotel beds.)
In the morning, during our search for coffee (we ARE from the coffee capital of the world and the free stuff at the hotel's continental breakfast just wasn't cutting it -- this would be a continuing theme during our trip) CJ saw this interesting place, where you can do just about everything but get "real" espresso (as they advertised).
Ah well, Butte does have a few espresso stands and we managed to track one down. Properly fueled, we headed for Billings and beyond.
As we left Butte, I took this picture, saying "Our favorite view of Butte: in our rear-view mirror."
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