We’re about 25 miles west of Missoula, Montana on I-90 headed east. We’re following the Clark Fork river which goes past Heron, Montana where we started this vacation trip a couple of weeks ago.

Nina is driving. We’re holding the speed down to 55 mph to save gas. Hopefully we’ll get upwards of 10 mpg on the freeway. At these speeds even the ancient VW camper vans are passing us. I think I should make a sign to go on the back of the tracker saying why we’re going slowly. We’re going to take some more trips, including out to Daryl’s wedding in October.

The west half of Montana is quite pretty, even from the Interstate. I was expecting more traffic, though, as this is a holiday and the start of a three-day weekend. We’ll be home around 8 pm tonight. Another 7.5 hours to go.