May 1 - Missoula, Montana to Billings, Montana - partly cloudy, cold, windy, snow melted  5 C - Montana has casino's - chains named Magic Diamond and Lucky Lil's as well as independent- Out of all the states in United States with gambling facilities, Montana is number 6 out of 46 in number of casinos.

Montana has a total of 68 casinos and pari-mutual facilities at your disposal. The casinos / gambling locations are spread out in 27 different locations throughout the state. The town with the most is Great Falls with 16 casinos.  Who knew:)

Missoula is really nice - would definitely come back to explore further.  also would love to be at Rock Creek Lodge Clinton, Montana for the   31st Annual Testicle Festival   July 31st - August 4th, 2013   - Yeah I couldn't believe signs either - Google it and find out just what goes on :)

Driving East we see Rockies with snow falling - heading into it - hope it doesn't storm - get to Butte and start climbing - snow still on ground and some flakes falling - 6393' we cross the Continental Divide and start down - steep, winding - grades where transport speeds are 25 mph and there are runaway ramps.  Getting back into prairie - arid, no trees, just sage brush, prairie grasses, pronghorns, grazing cattle, incredible rock formations, buttes, mesas - could almost see John Wayne riding across the prairie and up into the hills in some spots - horses everywhere - old homesteads falling apart, historic towns, hey Boot Hill is in Billings - does it get any better.

Amazing scenery which I did not photo graph in fact didn't take camera out today at all :(  Cold, windy, snowy not best photo weather - but think that I-90 is better than I-80 for scenery - well so far anyway - Montana is quite the state - a must see - however by traveling I-90 we missed seeing Mount Rushmore, Crazy Horse Mountain, Yellowstone Park, Little Big Horn Battlefield and , sob, Sturgis, South Dakota.  Oh well  next time - yeah right:)

tomorrow we head to Bismarck, North Dakota - so will see what else Montana has in store for us.