Montana

📍 Billings, Bozeman, Big Sky, West Yellowstone

🗓️ August & September 2020

Montana is calling and I must go — that’s a popular phrase I saw on tourist items like souvenirs during my time in Montana. And honestly, I get it. Montana is beautiful. They don’t call it God’s Country for nothing. It lives up to the name, if not exceeds expectations. I spent time there in the late summer of 2020 on a road trip across the northwest United States. It was the summer of COVID-19 and while cases of the virus were relatively low at the time, it was still very much a thing. International travel wasn’t an option; the borders were still closed, but my travel bug was itching. It dawned on me that I only had 3 states left to visit before I could say I had been to them all. So, I decided to plan a road trip. My friend Sam was gracious enough to accompany me and we had quite the time spending a week crossing North Dakota, Montana and Idaho off my list. It’s a trip I think of often and remember fondly. One of those classic, Americana road trips. Montana was by far my favorite state we saw and, as someone who has spent time in all 50 states.. I can honestly say it’s one of the best in the nation. I highly, highly recommend. I hope to go back one day. I would love to visit Whitefish and Glacier National Park. Fingers crossed for that 🤞 I envision many different kinds of lives for myself and in one version, Montana is also a place I live. On a big ole piece of land. Maybe a ranch? I guess we’ll see…