As I mentioned in my last post, it’s a charging desert around Glacier National Park. Coming in from Spokane, we stopped at St Regis, Montana where there is a Supercharger.
Yes. That’s the Supercharger. Behind me is a gift shop and gas station and that’s about it. It was a hot day but this was our only choice for a charging stop. Normally, we like to stop for lunch and charge while eating. Usually, as my friend Merlyn says “the car is ready before we are.” However, the food choices in St Regis were, let’s say, limited.
We charged, visited the gift shop (do people really buy that stuff?) and were on our way. The next best place for lunch seemed to be Plains, Montana. Population 1,100. Yelp, our go-to source for food said the Butcher’s Nook was the best option. So we gave it a go. Cute little place. Seems to be run by perhaps a Mennonite family. Very clean, friendly. We split a BLT with fries and it was actually quite good.
From Plains, we made our way on in to East Glacier and checked in to the Pine Mountain Motel. We had heard the Logan Pass parking lot fills up early, so we planned on getting up early the next morning for the drive in.
We always take our own coffee with us. Palace Coffee French Roast. We also take our grinder, our French Press and an electric water heating carafe. Yes, we’re coffee snobs. To avoid the breakfast rush, after dinner at the local pizza truck (decent, but speedy) we went to Brownie’s across from our motel (there aren’t many choices in East Glacier, either) and got some pastries for a quick morning breakfast. They open at 7:00am, so we thought we’d do our pastries and coffee, then grab some sandwiches from them the next morning on our way out.
In the process, we struck up a conversation with Gabby, who is a chemical engineering student working at Brownie’s for her second summer here from Lithuania. She asked if we had two extra spots in our car for the next morning to the park. One for her and one for her fiancé, Loren (not his actual name; he said we couldn’t probably pronounce it) who was a fifth year med student, also from Lithuania.
We said, “sure” and then wondered if that was a good idea or not. So we went back to our room, plugged Scarlett in and retired for the night.
