Kit and Carol on the Road

We have decided Montana is about trains and rivers. We are camped along the beautiful Boulder River, a small tributary, but the interstate follows River as well. In Missoula we walked the River trail along the Clark Fork which bisects the town--University on one side and downtown on the other. We had planned to stop at the Headwaters of the Missouri--the three forks known to Lewis and Clark--but the freeway was under construction and the exits closed. It's been a dry summer and the rivers are languid but the highways and railroads follow them none-the-less. We have seen coal trains and oil trains and freight trains but mostly a mixture of the three. Even in our quiet spot several miles from any tracks I could hear train whistles in the night. We are here in the very center of Montana at the edge of mountain and forest--heading into the great grassland--but no doubt rivers and trains will follow us.
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