Saturday, July 11, 2015

The Izaac Waalton Inn

July 11, 2015

The Izaac Walton Inn, is pretty cool, especially if you are a railroad buff. They half a half a dozen old cabooses made into lodging cabins, lots of old railroad memorabilia. Freight trains do roll by quite often, big ones, it makes me wonder why railroads have declined they way they have in this country. We like to think we are the world leader, but we lag so far behind the rest of the world in mass transit, it's too bad with so much of the infrastructure still in place. Just think of all the abandoned railroad tracks we all see. It is remarkable how easily dependent we can become in just a short period of time. Without internet, we become lost, I keep trying to connect for the weather, hotel for the night, directions. No cell service either, But it seems we all survived nicely just 10-15 years ago without any of it.
We have an excellent dinner in the restaurant and some very good wine. It rains a bit and cools down, the room is warm, but comfortable enough to sleep, until the freight trains rumble by...at least 1 every hour. Not the best night's sleep we've had.

It's warm, cloudy, humid when we hit the pavement, not the weather I had expected in northern Montana.

 Another Freight Train Rumbles by



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