Day 20 - Food & Forests!!

Started slower this morning with a breakfast at the campground eatery --- the Sunflower Café. This was a cool little outdoorsy restaurant (picnic tables, window service) that served up seriously good food. Going in I’m thinking Eat’n Park for poor campers but it was close to gourmet (as close as you can get in the Montana outback). Some of the choices: The A.M. Banh Mi (Glazed pork belly, fried eggs, carrot cucumber slaw, cilantro, jalapenos, siracha aioli on a torta); The Nordic Sunrise: Smoked salmon, cream cheese, lemon pepper, cucumbers, tomatoes, capers, pickled red onions, dill on a N.Y. bagel

…. You get the picture. I took the Huevos Divorciados, which the chef says he picked up in Mexico and Pat went for the Classic (their version of the BLT on Dave’s Killer Wheat Toast.

Drove to the Glacier NP and got oriented at the Visitor’s Center. Lots of people. Drove the Going to the Sun Road for about 15 miles and stopped at Trail of the Cedars for a short hike through a pristine cedar forest bisected by a small river/large creek. Interesting to understand those cedars live to be a thousand years old, can grow 230 feet at a 13 foot diameter.

Decided to visit a small town recommended by all the magazines….Whitefish, MT. It has a ski mountain, large recreational lake and a great downtown filled with shops, bars and restaurants. We thought it might someday compete with towns like Jackson, WY for higher end tourist dollars.

On the way back from Whitefish, stopped to buy cherries at a roadside stand. Tremedous! In fact, this whole area is ripe with cherries and huckleberries. Hadn’t thought of the latter since watching Huckleberry Hound a few years back.