Day 19--9/11/14 Homeward Bound!
After another delicious breakfast and saying our goodbyes at the Garden Wall Inn we headed home. Leaving Whitefish we took a very scenic drive south along Flathead Lake, 28 miles of beauty sitting next to the mountains. The lake is bordered on its eastern shore by the Mission Mountains and on the west by the Salish Mountains. The Flathead valley was formed by the glacial damming of the Flathead River and sustains a remarkably mild climate for a region located this far north and inland. The mild climate allows for cherry orchards on the east shore and vineyards, apple, pear and plum orchards around the lake. We then drove south to Missoula and headed east on I-90. We drove through Butte, Bozeman, and on to Billings for overnight.