Ennis Hunger Games

So we are on the second night of this broken down adventure in Ennis, MT and we find ourselves spending most of our time watching movies from the local grocery store and we are only semi-stranded because we corral around town on our two bikes while the third man sticks with the van! At least once a day, out of our gratefulness for being able to park on their lawn for free, we eat at the restaurant we are next to. During Breakfast this morning our waitress, Kelly offered us her phone number and a spare key to her house so we could do laundry and shower...she is so awesome!

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But before we found ourselves here we stopped at a nice town, Deer Lodge, MT, on our way toward Ennis. We found the Montana State Prison Museum which had five different museums inside of it, our favorite part next to the prison portion was the automobile museum! Adam stumbled upon his dream car the 1967 Shelby GT 500 Mustang as seen in the movie Gone In Sixty Seconds if your interested in seeing it not parked. They also had other sweet cars going way back to the horse and buggy and the Ford Model-T all the way to VW Vanagons! We journeyed on through the museums and onto the prison sections where we learned histories of past inmates who caused major riots, how prisoners sculpted shanks and pipes and even guns! They would crack the tips off of match heads and save up enough match head powder to fill the tube of a metal pen, then cram a bunch of lead shards at the end of the tube, how successful it was i do not know but pretty scary to think how easy a gun can be devised! The prison closed off many of the anticipated parts of any prison, the cells, but naturally we found are way up to the cells pretty easily! At one point I reached my hand up over a crevice next to one of the holding cells just to see if I could find treasure and pulled out a pipe stem! The stem looked just like the ones that we saw in the historical contraband display cases early on in the museum 

Once that portion was finished we left as it was going on three hours that we had been going through this place, we stopped at the local A&W and grabbed lunch. We then jumped back on the highway toward Ennis, a town we picked from a recommendation from Suzanne Goulet because of the town's simple beauty, and go figure we break down right in the heart of it! But just 50 or 60 miles back we past through a few ghost towns which were filled with shops that had cowboy clothing and old-timey type things and people to animate the towns! It was fun, i had to resist the purchase of an old style top hat, it was one of the curvy ones that bows in the middle and then comes out at the top.... reeeeal fancy!  So after the ghost towns and such, we came through Ennis and this was purely to get gas at this point because we were set on a wal-mart for the evening. We drove 60 miles away from Ennis to Bozeman where we camped! Took off from Ennis once again because it is regarded as world class fly fishing country with the Madison River flowing right through the middle of it. Our plan was to do some fishing on the way to Yellowstone. We also needed to do some business at the Ennis post office so we stopped and i went in to mail some post cards and once i mailed my things the mail woman looked at me and said, "Goodluck."Now i paused in my head and wondered, "what a weird thing to say to a stanger?" Go outside and wouldn't you know it the transmission starts acting us and i go one block down the road and break down completely! That re-affirms for me the third eye we have and sometimes freakishly prove with predictions and little comments that couldn't have been foreseen! Very cool! So we rest on the second night of Ennis town living, where will will kill another day until we are towed to a mechanic we are scheduled to see on Thursday morning who is going to fix us up hopefully so we may be back on the road by friday!

 Goodnight Ennis!

Adam's dream car

Tunnel

View from solitary confinement

Off Limits

At least they had a view

Ennis