Into Montana! We didn’t actually visit Makoshika State Park, because it was the wrong time of day that we passed by, and we were full of badlandedness anyways. And I really wanted to see Medicine Rocks State Park. It’s like apartment buildings made of stone, like the Planet of the Apes village in the 1968 movie. They had a water pump I”d never seen before: you pump it up and it mostly hold your water till you drink it all from the water fountain that’s falling, or you pull a lever and get a big gush from a spigotty thing. If you wait too long, it all dribbles out from the water fountain. So at least you have an opportunity to get your water bottle in the right location with one hand, instead of pumping and holding at the same time. We talked to another camper there who said we had to go to Charles Russell National Wildlife Refuge on the Missouri River. Lots of fisherfolks all over that place. Very bumpy roads. Pretty, but not what I was looking for at the time.

Next we came to the Garnet Ghost Town, near Missoula. It’s in pretty good shape. Gives you a feeling of the time.

Leaving there, we found a really good campsite at the end of a forest service road, with views forever and no one around.