Long Sweeping Hwy 12 View - Near Garrison, Montana

 “An old cowboy once told me that memory rides a quiet horse, taking you to the tops of high hills with long sweeping views. Well, this quiet horse would be riding until the day I died, with a view so pretty it would always pain my heart.” - p 299, Sun Dance (Sam Keaton, Legends of Laramie) by Sigmund Brouwer

(Click here to read first-person bits about Garrison, Montana.) 

Isolated Eavesdropping - On Hwy 200, Montana

“I'm learning to surrender both to the grueling work and to the isolation. When I need centering, I sing a favourite hymn, "Spirit of God descend upon my heart," which also allows me to eavesdrop on my spirit and pick up on its mumblings.”

-Joan Anderson, in A Year By The Sea, p.131

On Becoming Less - North-Central Montana

"He walked out slowly, past the bookcase...[of] books he had read and reread...plenty of poetry...that stayed in your heart [including a] well used [Dante's] Inferno. It was so appropriate. If a man could only learn that you are punished not for the sin, but by it, and you thus become less than you could have been, how much that would change you." 
-Lucas Standish musing in Death in Focus by Anne Perry , p.36

Flat Land And Sky Chance - Sunburst, Montana

"Rose doesn’t like the flat country, but I always did – flat country seems to give the sky such a chance."

- Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

Windswept Wideness - South of Anaconda, Montana

"Life is wide. There's room to take a new run at it." - Ivan Doig, 'English Creek'

Sweetgrass Hills - South of Sweetgrass, Montana

"From a distance, the Hills floated above the plains like an idea that was easy to understand....There was a great quiet up there near the Sweet Grass Hills, not an absence of sound but the presence of the sounds that human agendas obscure." - From 'Red Rover' by Deirdre McNamer

Full Promise, Central Montana Rainbow

Reason # 41: Why I Love Montana Road Trips