Montana

 

I wanted to post a picture of Brokeback Mountain, the mountain, so I searched Google images for it, and all I got was pictures like this one, so I'm guessing that Brokeback Mountain is a fictional place. It was going to represent Montana. Now these two do.

In any case, I have now walked 1,156,000 steps, or 578 miles, since I started keeping track last October, and that puts me a few miles past the border between Idaho and Montana. I just walked over Cooper Pass, Montana, which has an elevation of 5,791 feet, so I suspect that the weather is very cold and maybe the roads are closed for the season, but, you know, I'm good.

I have been through Butte, Bozeman, and Billings Montana a few times, because they are all on I-90, and I I know a story about Butte, but my walking path will not take me very near either Butte of Bozeman, though I will meet up with I-90 at Billings. What all that means is that I will cross Montana through a lot of towns that I have never been to and do not know anything about, so my trip across Montana will mostly be a story of numbers - how many steps I took this month, what milestones I am approaching, how far to Wyoming. The same was true of Idaho, except one post I got there, another I was more than halfway across, and the next I was in Montana.

I passed 500,000 steps in the middle of Washington, and one million after I entered Idaho. I will pass 1.5 million, two million (1,000 miles!), and 2.5 million steps all while I'm in Montana. I will be in the state until the middle of June. Once I get to Wyoming (and on to South Dakota two or three days later), it will be more interesting to track my progress by the states I walk through.

Perhaps I will write a post about why we need a new constitution. Mitch McConnell broke the current one.