I have family in both so i have pressure to settle in both! LOL!
Bozeman (Bozangeles, as Montanans put it) and Missoula are too populous for me now, so i am looking at several small towns in a crecent shaped swath of Montana that extends from Red Lodge to Hamilton and up to Whitefish or Libby.
So i have some Montana traveling to do before i buy another place!
Thread drift when it includes an adorable companion like Soot isn’t something anyone would complain about. She looks like she was a tried and true friend. 
I was at Big Sky for a week in 2018, and spent a day in Bozeman. I’ve spent a fair amount of time in northern Montana. Some of my family in Saskatchewan lives fairly close to the border. I’ve also taken the train from Glasgow to Seattle, and I’ve made several road trips through Montana.
Glasgow is my hometown. Great people and Fort Peck Lake is sweet, but the winters are long, dark and brutally cold.
The short 8 hour and 12 minute days (not that i was counting) in December and the nearly 16 hour nights are a large part of what is keeping me from deciding on Whitefish or Kalispell more easily.
But growing up on the Hi Line of Montana gave me one other benefit. To linguists i sound like i am from Saskatchewan, which is kind of cool.
I guess i got my accent from CKCK radio!
LOL!
I’m sorry for the sadnesses you’ve experienced in your life. But how wonderful and freeing it must be to just be able to see the world without having too many things tying you down. I want to be you when I grow up. Well truthfully, I want to be you and still afford to keep my house while I travel because I love it. I have the ocean (Bay) view I always dreamed of, plus a half acre of land I can plant with all sorts of ornamentals and edibles. I’m not good at it, but I keep striving to improve. And if you love MT because it is the gateway to the great outdoors, I feel you and feel the same about western WA where I live. There is nothing that restores my sense of balance more than our multi-weekly walks through the woods. Pines everywhere, creeks burbling, dead leaves crunching underfoot, waterfalls in surprising places after a rain, woodpeckers pecking, and rays of sun gently filtering through.
And yes I admit to thread drift in the first degree.
Great shots! Montana is a touch drier so we have a bit fewer ferns but those pictures still look beautifully familiar. The smell of a pine forest or that of a pasture full of sage brush mean so much to me.
I’m quite familiar with Glasgow, Fort Peck and Opheim 
Very small world.
My cousins shop at Gordon’s and lunch at the Glasgow Pizza Hut.
Opheim? This is getting weird. My Mom is from Opheim, she was one of the Squires girls. The Bies family are my cousins.
Again, admin, sorry for the thread drift but hearing someone knows Opheim, (a town of just 90 people now) is just bizarre.
Here is a photo of my Grandmother and one of my Aunts on their ranch near Opheim.
And my Grandfather on the horse he rode, Comanche, as he proved up his homestead.
This is getting very weird. I will switch to DM for privacy’s sake. 
I visited the Mint Bar in 2018, on my last visit.
I didn’t pay much attention to this thread as I hadn’t seen the episode.
Tonight I watched it (it was in the Netflix queue- not a conscious selection at all!)
Oh my.
In France we say that the best way to learn a language is on the pillow…
That would be one Chatt(erle)y lover 
If they were going to do it as anything but a week long gag it would be one thing.
But wise decision overall.
