Two weeks ago, I was in St. Louis and watched the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers. This morning, I was at Three Forks, Montana, witnessing the Missouri headwater.
I now have seen both the beginning and the end of the 2,341-mile river, the longest in the United States, in just 14 days of leisure driving.
Exactly 221 years ago, it took Lewis and Clark over 14 months of grueling upstream effort to cover this exact distance.
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Tonight, I'm in Missoula, Montana, visiting a deeply moving historical site that preserves the history of the Fort Missoula Alien Detention Center.
During World War II, this post became an internment camp for over 1,200 Italian nationals, 1,000 Japanese resident aliens, and dozens of German and Latin American detainees. This historical museum remains the largest intact WWII internment facility in the nation.
Walking through it, I felt heavy.
Distance driven: 264 miles