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Our jammer bus driver mentioned the Belton Chalet. He said the meals there are excellent.
The plan was to stop at there for lunch after the red jammer bus trip. However, we could not find the Belton Chalet. I later learned that it is in walking distance from the Amtrak depot in Apgar.
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thanks sojourner. I haven't been to Glacier since my high school graduation trip. Time to go back. I was interested in this description of one of the rooms at the Belton Lodge. I didn't realize it was in sight of the tracks:
Standard Room with Balcony: These rooms have the same space as a Standard room and face into Glacier National Park. The balcony has wooden rocking chairs which invite you to train spot or simply gaze toward the spectacular mountain scenery.
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One of my fantasies should I ever just 'up and leave' is to move to Montana and support myself driving a Jammer.
Of course my wife will not sign off on this plan. Montana winters are too harsh.
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quote:Originally posted by notelvis: Nice article.
My wife and I honeymooned in Essex.
One of my fantasies should I ever just 'up and leave' is to move to Montana and support myself driving a Jammer.
Of course my wife will not sign off on this plan. Montana winters are too harsh.
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I did not make it to Essex this summer, but one of these days I'm going to get there and stay at the Izaak Walton Inn.
I can understand your wife, David, not wanting to leave North Carolina. I have never been there but had I had a friend, in the service, from Greensboro and it is one state I would like to visit.
Our red jammer bus driver was from the south. He found there was a job opening, as a red bus driver, upon his retirement. He moved up there and took the job and has not regretted it. Just buy a snowmobile, a parka, and stock up on plenty of canned food and you can survive the winter. I should not talk, however, 40 years ago I lived just east of the park and tried to endure 40 below weather which was a little cold for a boy from Northern California.
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David, You can always try the Chinook wind argument on your wife: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinook_wind I know I have seen times the temp is way more tolerable in Whitefish than my home in St. Paul. The east side of Glacier is much lower and warmer than the west side. And you always have the Builder/Starlight in the winter when you are not working to whisk you away to So. Cal. And if you are a skier, you are in heaven. Just imagine a warm fire and a hot tub.
To me dry cold is so much more tolerable than damp cold. But for Montana east of Glacier, the wind makes winter very uncomfortable
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You will be interested to learn that we spent 5 days in St. Paul earlier this summer and my wife LOVED it there.... she has an old friend who lives near the Twin Cities Ford plant.
Of course she knows deep down that January can be brutal BUT the Twin Cities, in July anyway, are her kind of place.
Highlight for me had to be the Twin Cities Model Railroad Club display at Bandana Square.... along with Minehaha Park and riding the light rail!
-------------------- David Pressley
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