The trip to Helena from East Glacier was about 198 miles, so I thought we’d have plenty of range. However, I didn’t factor in the high winds that were still buffeting the area and the speed limit (70, 75 and 80 on the road in).
About 50 miles in, our car gave us a notice we needed to keep it under 65 mph in order to make it to Helena. I hadn’t received a message like that before, but was glad to see it. It had us (at our current speed) arriving with less than 4% range. We generally don’t like dropping below about 20%, so I backed off. As I did, over the next 50 miles or so, the projected range on arrival crept back up and eventually made it to 18%. And we arrived in Helena with 18% range.
Since it was a shorter trip to Missoula, we had decided to stop at the Cathedral of St Helena for a free tour. It was worth the stop. Not only was the architecture amazing, we ran into three massively tatted guys, one who lived in Helena and had never visited the cathedral and the other two, his cousins, from Concrete, Washington. Another great conversation time.
From Helena, we went on in to Missoula for the night. We had a supercharger at the hotel. Food choice adjacent to the hotel appeared to be so-so on Yelp. So we picked the top rated spot relatively close (about 2 miles away) and went to the Tap Club.
We ordered the pulled pork tacos to split. So glad we split! It was huge! and it was probably the best meal we had up to this point. We left stuffed.