| Here is a
timeline for our drive east back to Manitowoc. |
| Time |
Event |
|
| 09:00 |
Leave
E. Glacier |
G
|
| 10:06 |
Shelby, MT |
|
| 11:06 |
Great Falls,
MT |
|
| 12:10 |
Stanford,
MT |
G
|
| 12:50 |
Lewiston,
MT |
F
|
| 16:00 |
Circle, MT |
G
|
| 16:50 |
Glendive,
MT |
|
| 15:12 |
Enter ND |
|
| 18:30 |
CST Zone |
|
| 20:17 |
Bismarck,
ND |
F,G
|
| 20:54 |
Depart Bismarck |
|
| 23:30 |
Fargo, ND |
G
|
| 02:50 |
Minneapolis,
MN |
|
| 03:25 |
Hudson,
WI |
G
|
| 05:15 |
Millston,
WI |
R
|
| 07:25 |
Depart Millston |
|
| 09:15 |
Stoughton,
WI |
G
|
| 09:45 |
Arrive Janesville |
|
| 10:00 |
Depart Janesville |
|
| 13:00 |
Arrive home |
|
| 29.0 hours |
|
| KEY: |
|
|
| R=Rest F=Food G=Gas |
| In
real time the trip east took us a about
29 hours. This includes stops of 45 minutes
for lunch, almost 40 for dinner, a little
over 2 hours for a nap and about 4 hours
to pick up the kids. Driving time excluding
the detour to Janesville would have been
about 24 hours. |
|
|
Driving
through the warm Northern Plains night was not as difficult
as I thought. On the way out we were running on adrenaline
and the excitement of going to Glacier for the first time.
I had a pretty good idea that we were going to make great
time as I was feeling more alert than i thought possible.
 |
| Craig and Yumi after 4000 miles
on the road and 7 Nights in Glacier's backcountry |
Minneapolis
didn't piss me off nearly as much as it did on the way out.
Of course, we were about the only ones on the interstate.
We arrived just before 0300 so there weren't a lot of cars
to block traffic. At 0322 we were back in Wisconsin. I was
very tired but drove on for another hour. that was about
as far as I could go without putting us in danger. Since
we were going to be very early picking up the boys in Janesville,
I decided to stop near Tomah at a rest area for a couple
hours of sleep. The rest did us good as we felt fairly refreshed
for the two hour drive to Janesville and my boys.
At this
time it really hit me: we were almost home. I immediately
began scheming to get back to Glacier the next summer.
Fitting the boys into the back
seat was tight, but we managed to cram them in. I had done
the stretch from Janesville back to Manitowoc a million
times before, and just like that we were back home. Over
4000 miles, 400 pictures and a million memories. I can't
wait to get back.
|
