Montana! Mountains, right? Not in the northern bit, no. Northern Montana is merely a southward extension of the Prairie Provinces Of Canada™ and as such both largely empty and unequivocally drear. Although the neighbouring bit of North Dakota ent exactly scenic either. First port of call today was Fort Buford, which has little to commend except a rabbit:
Next door is the Missouri-Yellowstone Confluence Interpretive Center, where a large coach party arrived at the same time as me, thus there was no-one interested in my money to let me into the museumy bits. Though I did meet a chap who recognised my T-shaped shirt, had heard of Wishbone Ash and wondered whether rock'n'roll's Martin Turner remembered playing his local venue, viz. The Warehouse in New Orleans. I said I'd ask... The confluence looks like this:
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| Yellowstone River dead opposite; Missouri flowing right to left |
Just up the road is Fort (checks notes) Union but that didn't look very L&C related either. And thus ended North Dakota. First this to see in Montana was also not L&C-related but SCS Software went to all the trouble of modelling the spillway of the Fort Peck Dam for the Montana DLC for American Truck Simulator so it would be foolish to pass up the chance to see it in Real Life. Even is at this time og year it wasn't likely to have any water in it.
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| Fort Peck Dam Spillway. It was Windy. |
Head back to US-2 in the town of Glasgow which, according to the wacky cahps at the WaPo, is officially The Middle Of Nowhere. See https://www.denverpost.com/2018/02/21/where-is-the-middle-of-nowhere/ for details. Still had a petril station, mind, and one that sold me petril without complaint or requests for a ZIP code. But it was still a very long way through a lot of this:
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| Thiseis what passes for Scenery around here |
to Fort Benton. Fort Benton hav a v. interesting history if you are interested in hist. which few boys are. For a Several of year it was the head of navigation on the Missouri and as such handled goods for not only the surrounding bits of US territory but even Stuffs for destination way north of the 49th Parallel like Exotic Edmonton. Then the railways came.
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| The bustling port of Fort Benton, yesterday |
Just southwest of here there actually is some scenery but you have to stop and peer over the edge of a cliff to see it.
And soo to Great Falls (pop. > 60,000) where my phone cannot find a network. Which is seriously fucking annoying when you're trying to book accommodation for tomorrow night at Horseybank plc suddenly decides it wants to use 2FA and send a verification code via txt msg to what is currently naught but a fancy paperweight. Nice one, giffgaff. Not.
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