Following Contours

Downtown Missoula, MT

Missoula yielded a great interview with Barbara Neilan, who heads Destination Missoula and spoke to the impact COVID-19 has had on the tourism industry.

Barbara is a native Montana and offered up a number of recommendations and historical gems. One such gem was how Missoula once sat at the bottom of an ancient sea. But glacier melt led to three massive floods that shaped everything in its way. Hundreds of thousands of years ago.

It helps to have the University of Montana in town. I really enjoyed the creative vibe of the downtown area.

The drive from Missoula to Great Falls basically followed the contours shaped hundreds of thousands year ago. It was gorgeous as you would suspect. The Big Sky Country nickname didn’t come from thin air. Now I have 8.5 more hours of driving to complete before I arrive in Bismarck, ND.

What contours shaped in the ancient past shows up in your daily life?