Heading Out - Missoula International Airport

Heading out for two and a half weeks, on the heels of a fair bit of planning and packing. Saturday was  Denver and Las Vegas; tomorrow, San Francisco and Tokyo; Tuesday, Bangkok and Colombo, Sri Lanka. Just typing that was  a little surreal - I'm SOOOO excited!

You can follow our adventures in Sri Lanka at JourneysWithGod.com ; there's also a link in my blog roll on the right sidebar of this page. 

In the meantime, I've stockpiled enough Montana posts to tide you over for the duration, because it's still going to be winter gorgeous here! 

Squared, Missoula International Airport, Missoula, Montana

Sometimes it pays to listen to your very own whippersnapper, as they often notice amazing things. Such as, when they encourage you to be in the now crowd and upgrade to iO7. Even better, when they say, “You should take a picture of that.” - which is exactly why I have this lofty view of an entry tower ceiling at the Missoula International Airport. Thanks, Delightful Daughter. I love that you appreciate quirky things.

Windsock, Missoula, Montana

Windsocks, for me, are forever associated with tag-along trips with older brothers or my dad to the county airport, often just to watch the planes arriving and departing. I’ve been told (since this pre-dates my memory, or possibly my existence) that an early landing strip for St. Paul, Alberta, was one of the level pastures on our farm. (Not to be confused with the town's alien landing pad.) I indistinctly recall Canadian Aviation Hall of Fame‘s Vera Dowling landing there in her little yellow plane, and then coming into our house to visit. And I remember walking with my older sister, following tyre tracks across the pasture grass, to watch the remote-controlled maneuvers of the local model plane club, imagining Stuart Little piloting one of their planes.

This windsock pictured above, however, graces Missoula’s Osprey Stadium. I suppose wind direction is good to know when you’re throwing the ball fast enough to get a speeding ticket on the Interstate.