We started the morning with an easy 10 mile bike ride (the hotel offered free bikes!) to what Google Maps deemed to be a "historic landmark" not far from downtown Glasgow: Paisley, MT. Turns out it is just a road - maybe even a driveway with no actual marker. The bike ride offered a wonderful change from being in a car while enjoying the flat terrain of eastern Montana. We got it in before the sun really started beating down. With such flat land out here and not as much wilderness, it seems like there is little shade in places we go. The sun definitely feels hotter and more brutal. The wind feels generally stronger, sometimes even aggressive - but mostly a welcome cool down from the hot sun.
We returned to Glasgow and grabbed delicious sandwiches at a deli that abuts the hotel. Having the dog with us has been a constant balancing act of exercising her (and including her in our adventures) while always being aware of how the heat affects her and the ground she walks on. We spent some of the afternoon just hanging out with her in the hotel room, watching movies. We had plans later on and knew she would be crated then.
When we were on our morning walk with her, we found out that there is a local summer theater in a nearby town not far from Glasgow. In accordance with the festivities in honor of the upcoming holiday, they were performing a show entitled "The Complete History of America (Abridged)". We decided it would be a great way to celebrate the holiday as well as experience other parts of NE Montana. Upon further research, the town of Ft. Peck was on a lake and had historical landmarks related to Lewis and Clark.
We made our way south to Ft. Peck. The lake was beautiful; a sparkling blue that was not far from the Caribbean blues I'd come to know during my cruise ship days. I regretfully did not get any good pictures of the lake before a quick 5 minute rain muddied the waters and clouded the sky turning the turquoise blue to just normal lake blue. We made it up to the Lewis and Clark Observation Point before the rain. This spot overlooks the lake but mostly is a great vantage point of the surrounding countryside. Each angle you looked, you saw a slightly different terrain. I took pictures of the surrounding land while Alex found $20 in the nearby brush. I wonder how that summarizes Alex and me.
The show was ok; it started stronger than it ended. The second act could have been done without as it just started getting weird. I think Alex even fell asleep (and it was supposed to be a comedy)! The theater itself was a piece of history as it is almost 90 years old and started as a movie theater showing movies 24/7. How cool is that?! Who is watching movies at 3:00am? I will never know but it makes you think of what that world must have been like if there was even a remote profitability of that!
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