It sure feels good to be back home. Despite all of our travels, Montana is still number one in our hearts.
We took off from the Palm Desert on Friday, April 2nd and headed North. We took the quiet roads through the Mojave desert and made our way up to Mesquite, NV by midnight. Saturday morning was a beautiful drive up I-15 through Utah and into Idaho. That is when it started to get cold. The wind blew 30 mph that night and with temps in the 20's, the windchill was likely in the single digits. Needless to say...we were cold. Seems the California sun has made us a little soft. But boy was it sure nice to be warm ALL winter.
The winds died down on Easter Sunday and we had an incredible drive. We both took in the beauty of Montana as we crossed the snowy Continental Divide. Then just after we crested the pass, a huge gray wolf came down off the ridge, right off of the highway. The rest of our drive was smooth sailing. Short stops at a park in Twin Bridges and off of the highway in Livingston gave the dogs a much needed stretch, then it was on to Billings.
We've only been to Billings a couple of times, so we know very little about Montana's largest city. At a hundred thousand people, Billings makes Missoula seem like a small town. Good for us, the holiday traffic was light enough for me to navigate Big Bertha to a car/truck wash to spiffy up before arriving to our new home.
Work came bright and early Monday morning and my first week as an Outpatient PT for the Billings Clinic was okay. I think that this is going to be a great place for us!
Looks like we made it. And just in time for spring!
