Bozeman Montana

I am smitten with Bozeman, Montana, and I'm not one to use that word lightly! When we drove in Saturday evening I thought it looked like a nice town. It's a college town--the University of Southern Montana is here--and it has lots of funky coffee shops, restaurants, outdoor clothing shops, etc. Part of my smittenness might have to do with the fact that we spent a couple of very relaxing hours sitting in nice coffee shop surfing the web, having coffee and checking out the locals. Tim had taken the car for an oil change and that was the first hour we've spent completely separate since we started the trip I think. It was nice to have a little time to ourselves to recharge. After the coffee shop we found a small park and had a nice picnic lunch. It seemed like a town with a lot of life. There were kids playing in the park, people walking dogs, people picnicking and people just hanging out reading. We spent the next couple of hours wandering around the town before heading out to Florence.