Glacier National Park

Take a good look at this picture. Can you imagine a more idyllic place than this? This is just one of a couple of hundred pix we took at Glacier Nat'l Park this week. It's an amazingly beautiful place, nestled in the northwest corner of Montana. If you haven't been you must put it on your Bucket List. You know, the list of things to do and places to see before you kick the bucket.(o:

There are many ways to experience Glacier. We chose to drive our car up the Going To the Sun Road. Don't go to Glacier and miss that! You can drive, take a shuttle (I think it's free) or take one of the vintage red touring cars (not free)--but go because this place is too spectacular to miss. Yes, it's crowded. And yes, it takes the better part of a whole day, but it is so worth it.

There are myriad hiking trails, both long and short but even if you don't hike there is lots to do. Just driving up the road and stopping at all the lay-by's to take pictures makes it a full day with lots of steps. And if you add a hike or two then you deserve to splurge a little at lunch. Or at least that's the excuse I use.

There are only a few glaciers left and those are getting smaller, but if and when the glaciers finally melt there will still be such beauty at Glacier that it will draw people, and enchant them, and have them telling others about it. Now go--so you can be enchanted, and so you can share it with someone else. It's truly a Bucket List special, just waiting to be explored.