Amtrack. Idaho, Montana, North Dakota.
We slept through Idaho, and picked up more carriages which had come from Portland. We were soon in Glacier National Park and admiring the tree covered mountains. A wild looking place of Scots pines and glades cone shaped wild flowers (probably bear grass)
White tailed and Mule deer grazed in the clearings oblivious to the train going past.
It looked a good place for fishing!
Our sleeper cabin was small but comfortable, with a loo at the end of the carriage and a dinner car where we had all our meals. On the whole the food was good. We we sat with other travellers and on the second night we sat with a retired banker who was from a village 20 miles away from Nicola's home. No coke just Pepsi. Travelling is hard.
As we travelled through Montana the land got flatter and more open, they call it the land of big sky and you can see why. We passed small communities that looked like they were struggling to survive.
Into North Dakota where we started to see oil wells and the farms which looked prosperous.
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