Helena Montana

It was a beautiful drive up to Glacier National Park this AM. I didn’t realize Kalispell was as large as it was. I could have stayed there last night. It was the park’s 99th birthday today so admittance was free. How about that? Anyway, the Going to the Sun Road was all that I expected. It was beautiful even with the smoke from the fires. It was worth the trip.

Driving down Highway 89 after leaving the park was a pain. They had three construction projects where they had scraped off the pavement and there was only one way traffic and when my way got to go we could only drive about 25 MPH. I prolly lost about 30 minutes because of that. Looking at the map again I see I messed up. I should have just taken Highway 2 across to I-15. Would have saved a lot of time.

I see the stock market continued its dive today. Fortunately, most of my money is in bonds and other conservative stuff so the selloff hasn’t bothered me much. My 401-K is only down 3%. My utility stocks are down as well but that only makes the ROE better by allowing me to buy more stock at a lower price. I only have them for the dividend income.