Spud Drive-In Theatre

On Tuesday, I woke up, made coffee and walked around a bit before getting D-man up. We grabbed (huge) breakfast burritos and headed out of the park around 11:00. We have been using a 2010 paper map from Mom which has been fun. Like me, D-man just flips through the pages looking at places. 

At some point, he decided we should only use paper maps for our journey. We had picked up a tourist booklet for Southwest Montana when we entered Montana on Sunday and we used that as well as Mom’s map. D-man also researched all the fun things to do in the area based on the tourist map. We thought about hitting a cave park, but you had to take a 2-hour guided tour. Instead, we found a reservoir from the booklet and stretched our legs. 

We also made a detour (per D-man’s request) to hit Yellowstone National Park in the same day as Glacier. We were rewarded with spotting three bison right by the road. With these detours, we got to our next spot -  The Spud Drive In a bit later than I wanted, but it still worked out. The views of Teton coming into Driggs was stunning (but too dark for pics to turn out). 

The movie had started but we quickly turned in the radio on our front porch to get the audio and watch Spider-Man. We then ordered burgers, fries and shakes from the diner. And then we cuddled up on the front porch to watch the movie. I almost forgot, but D-man remembered there was a hot tub which we hit at 11:30 and took in the vast amount of stars and open skies. A truly unforgettable experience. 

My morning view 

The Many Glacier Hotel on our way out 

2nd palindrome of the trip 

In Augusta, MT 

 

our guides 

Views from yet another lake on our way to Yellowstone 

In Yellowstone 

Pretty cool

Our lodging for the night

The movie from our porch 

🥔 drive-in - so great!