Here's Annie, sitting in the Radon Room at the Free Enterprise Radon Mine in Boulder, MT. We took the elevator down into the mine, but it was too cold and too claustrophobic, so she opted for the upstairs room where they pipe in air from the mine. It's a beautiful sunny day and since we don't have wi-fi at our motel, I'm on line here at the mine about 3 feet from the wireless router.We have heard from friends that it's a real pain to post a comment on this blog--you have to sign up and put in lots of info--who knows how it gets used? ? ? Sorry about that. If you want to make a comment, just email us at either homerhorns@gmail.com or at anniew2009@gmail.com and we'll correspond that way. :*}
June 11 Browning to Boulder MT
Since we had a fairly short drive to Boulder and the Radon Mines yesterday, we decided to take some time off and see the sights. The Museum of the Plains Indians is in Browning and has various displays of clothing, artifacts etc as well as a few dioramas of Plains Life. Very interesting There were also several exhibits of contemporary Native Art. Outside, we found a round brick pedestal about 15 feet in diameter with the footprints and names of the participants in a Sign Language Conference held in 1930. Representatives of many of the plains tribes had their bare footprints immortalized in cement. The state governor, an army general and BIA officials all left their boot prints. We’re in the area where Lewis and Clark killed a couple of Blackfeet, setting off decades of Blackfoot resistance to white intrusion into the area.
Then a fairly short drive through more farm and ranch land in Northwestern Montana. Saw a couple of antelope and lots and lots of cattle. We stopped at a little dive in Dupuyer called Pierre’s. A little bar/cafe in a run down building with a sagging ceiling and a nest of grackles in the drain pipe over the door. The food was great. Real hand-cut french fries and hash-browns. Pierre said he bought potatoes from a group of Hutterite farmers and also buys all his beef locally. Across the street, I went into the Post Office to mail some post cards. The Postmistress’s name was Rose Bird Mittens.
We also stopped at a Dinosaur Museum, where we saw a cast of the world’s longest Dinosaur (some 135’) After a few more hours in the plains, we climbed into the mountains north of Helena, then on to Boulder. After driving around town for a bit, we found a really cheap Motel right in the middle of town. It’s got a kitchenette and is perfectly adequate, so we plan to stay here a couple of days before heading south.
Since we had a fairly short drive to Boulder and the Radon Mines yesterday, we decided to take some time off and see the sights. The Museum of the Plains Indians is in Browning and has various displays of clothing, artifacts etc as well as a few dioramas of Plains Life. Very interesting There were also several exhibits of contemporary Native Art. Outside, we found a round brick pedestal about 15 feet in diameter with the footprints and names of the participants in a Sign Language Conference held in 1930. Representatives of many of the plains tribes had their bare footprints immortalized in cement. The state governor, an army general and BIA officials all left their boot prints. We’re in the area where Lewis and Clark killed a couple of Blackfeet, setting off decades of Blackfoot resistance to white intrusion into the area.
Then a fairly short drive through more farm and ranch land in Northwestern Montana. Saw a couple of antelope and lots and lots of cattle. We stopped at a little dive in Dupuyer called Pierre’s. A little bar/cafe in a run down building with a sagging ceiling and a nest of grackles in the drain pipe over the door. The food was great. Real hand-cut french fries and hash-browns. Pierre said he bought potatoes from a group of Hutterite farmers and also buys all his beef locally. Across the street, I went into the Post Office to mail some post cards. The Postmistress’s name was Rose Bird Mittens.
We also stopped at a Dinosaur Museum, where we saw a cast of the world’s longest Dinosaur (some 135’) After a few more hours in the plains, we climbed into the mountains north of Helena, then on to Boulder. After driving around town for a bit, we found a really cheap Motel right in the middle of town. It’s got a kitchenette and is perfectly adequate, so we plan to stay here a couple of days before heading south.
We really had a wonderful day driving along grooving to Louis Armstrong and 
local country stations out of Helena. Wonderful formations of red and green stone--cliff cuts for road development leave this shale exposed and the weather makes them look like cut stone that has been dry-stacked into uniform block walls. We stopped to pick up both a piece of red and green stone. Will look it up at some point to see whether it's a form of sandstone, jasper or other igneous rock. At the same time, David cut me some sagebrush and we've been enjoying the wonderful fragrance both in the car and in our motel room.
local country stations out of Helena. Wonderful formations of red and green stone--cliff cuts for road development leave this shale exposed and the weather makes them look like cut stone that has been dry-stacked into uniform block walls. We stopped to pick up both a piece of red and green stone. Will look it up at some point to see whether it's a form of sandstone, jasper or other igneous rock. At the same time, David cut me some sagebrush and we've been enjoying the wonderful fragrance both in the car and in our motel room.
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