So, here we go for another day's adventure in Missoula. Actually, today was our last day here before we move on to Twin Falls tomorrow (our longest day of driving). I'm both looking forward to and dreading the drive tomorrow. It will definitely be a beautiful drive, but it will be a lot of time behind the wheel. At any rate, today was a good day. Just as an overview, we started out by making a trip to Walgreens to stock up on ice for the cooler and get razors for me to shave (yeah, I know, BORing). After that, we went to the Museum of Mountain Flight where we got the chance to talk to some very interesting gentlemen about the history of the Missoula air field and the progression of flight services for fire fighting and shipping of freight to the rural areas. The planes on display were also interesting specimens and characters in our story for the day. After perusing the museum, I got caught up in a conversation with the three gents at the desk about a hodge podge of topics, mostly (surprisingly) about teaching English and the challenges some people face when learning to write and learning language. After the Museum of Mountain Flight (MMF), we went to lunch at an Indian restaurant that touts "Indian Recipes and Local Ingredients," called Masala. The food was very good, albeit a bit spicy (not surprising, I know). After a break to rest up from the morning, we went to Fort Missoula to see the various historical buildings there. It was very interesting. I didn't realize that Missoula was home to one of the numerous internment camps during World War II that housed Italians, Japanese, and others. Such a dark piece of U.S. history in such a beautiful place.
Anyway, by the time we finished at the History Museum of Fort Missoula (HMFM), we came back to the hotel to take naps and update blogs and FB posts. Tonight our goal is to rest up for tomorrow's drive (and eat up our leftovers instead of spending more time on eating out. Below are various images from our day. I hope you enjoy these. You can see more of the pictures on Noi's FB site if you wish.
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| This plane was used to train pilots while Miss Montana | | was being renovated for a flight to Normandy, France. |
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| I love these old Army jeeps. They did a nice job on the reno of this old one. |
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| These are impressive birds, indeed. |
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| Another view of the Practice Bird. |
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| Noi departing Miss Montana. |
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| I was tempted to ask what time the train would leave the station. |
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| Lunch was at Masala in Downtown. |
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| Lunch today was yummy and not too expensive. |
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| This is one of the historic train depots from the Milwaukee Road |
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Due to how slow it is to upload images to this blog site, I may rethink my choice of this as a space for the images. However, I want to post these and get this page done for the night. Expect to see more pictures to come later, possibly in the form of a video compilation from our trip. For now, I bid you good night.
So, here we go for another day's adventure in Missoula. Actually, today was our last day here before we move on to Twin Falls tomorrow (our longest day of driving). I'm both looking forward to and dreading the drive tomorrow. It will definitely be a beautiful drive, but it will be a lot of time behind the wheel. At any rate, today was a good day. Just as an overview, we started out by making a trip to Walgreens to stock up on ice for the cooler and get razors for me to shave (yeah, I know, BORing). After that, we went to the Museum of Mountain Flight where we got the chance to talk to some very interesting gentlemen about the history of the Missoula air field and the progression of flight services for fire fighting and shipping of freight to the rural areas. The planes on display were also interesting specimens and characters in our story for the day. After perusing the museum, I got caught up in a conversation with the three gents at the desk about a hodge podge of topics, mostly (surprisingly) about teaching English and the challenges some people face when learning to write and learning language. After the Museum of Mountain Flight (MMF), we went to lunch at an Indian restaurant that touts "Indian Recipes and Local Ingredients," called Masala. The food was very good, albeit a bit spicy (not surprising, I know). After a break to rest up from the morning, we went to Fort Missoula to see the various historical buildings there. It was very interesting. I didn't realize that Missoula was home to one of the numerous internment camps during World War II that housed Italians, Japanese, and others. Such a dark piece of U.S. history in such a beautiful place.
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