Hello from St. Mary's Montana.  We are camped looking at the east side of Glacier National Park.
Jack and I have a saying when things aren't exactly the way we thought they would be, "It's a story."  Well, let me tell you a story. 
Going from Butte to St. Mary's is not exactly a straight shot and Jack was trying to decide whether to go up I-15 to 44 and across to 89 or to take 287 which changes into 89.  He decided this morning to go up I-15, and off we went.  It was a great ride with hardly any traffic even through the big cities of Helena and Great Falls.  We decided to stop and have lunch at a diner instead of fixing it here and so we stopped at Denny's.  We were sitting in our booth and a nice lady sat in the next booth.  She proceeded to talk to us all the way through lunch.  Not too bad considering Jack and I have been on the road for three days with no one but each other to talk with so you know our lunch would have been very quiet.  When we got on the road I started to look at the map and realized we could get on 89 right past Great Falls.  Let me just say that I was thinking of Jack.  The ride was over our comfort zone of 275 miles and this would be quicker.  We talked it over and decided to catch 89 and head north.  That's where the story begins.  We drove over 50 miles on this two lane road.  Not in too bad a shape but narrow shoulders.  We got to the town of Choteau and as we went around the circle to pick up 89 there was a sign that warned motorcyclists of construction.  Never said a word about cars or motor homes towing a car.  Nooo  so of course we just tooled along.  Hit a little construction but nothing to worry about and then we went around a curve and that's where it got hairy!!!  We were driving about 10 miles an hour over gravel roads and around detours that were dirt with no way else to go.  We thought we were coming out of it when much to our surprise there was another flagman that slowed us down and had us follow a follow me car.  We needed this guidance because it made the big earth movers slow down and let us pass.  Here we were actually going about 5 miles an hour.  I know this wasn't more than 10 or 15 miles but it felt like forever.  We finally got out of that and were sailing along still on 89 and still a 2 lane road but we were moving and no more gravel.  Then we got to Browning MT and saw that 89 was under construction there.  OMG but fortunately the GPS took us around that and we got to the BIA road (we didn't know what that was either until we got to St. Mary's, it stands for Bureau of Indian Affairs).  14 miles to go and we would be camped for 5 days!!  Wooo Hooo.  Then we started up the road and realized it was narrow and curvy and steep and no guard rails and again we were doing 15 miles an hour.  But finally at 4:30 we got to the camp site and that's where we are now.  When you sit outside you see the snow covered mountains and blue blue sky and no clouds and it is amazing!!  This is our quiet time.  Not a lot to do but a beautiful place to do it in,