5 Days In Montana (and some buggy moonshine)
Montana is incredibly beautiful. Any local who says otherwise is probably trying to hide their favorite fishing spot. I just returned from spending five amazing days with family and friends, attending a wedding and generally having fun. Over the course of those five days I took over six hundred pictures (!) and had some great adventures. At the wedding reception in Big Fork (right on Flathead Lake), we were doing the usual toasting / visiting / dancing / drinking. Behind the bar was a bottle of dangerous-looking liquid containing a coiled cobra biting the tail of a fairly large scorpion. It turns out this unusual liquor hails from Laos and is supposed give a person “increased vitality and health”. The bartender told us they’d had this bottle for a few years and nobody had ever wanted to drink any of the magic high-proof elixir inside… but that was before we arrived! Note that this picture shows a bottle that is only half full… sure enough, by midnight a bunch of us had taken shots of this terrible stuff.
I had two shots of it and am pretty sure I will soon be mutating and/or developing super powers.
John, there may have been a reason why that bottle had remained untouched for all those years. If the locals avoided it, you must know – that they knew – something you didn’t know…. have you had all your shots? Do you crave anything such as meat that is still attached to its owner? 🙂
Sounds like you had a great time in this beautiful state, but you are violating ‘another’ local tradition by bragging about Montana. You are supposed to say that “Montana Sucks” so that others will avoid visiting the ‘last best place. You can get more supporting documentation ~ and ~ buy a T-shirt to remind you of your adventurous evening in Bigfork. See this, Montana Sucks… http://www.montana-sucks.com
Hey Venom, now you can aptly fight Spiderman. Lucky for you the costume is all black too.
Ok, yeah, I’m envious; exotic liquors, beautiful terrain… Luckily we have some of both back home around here too 🙂 How did it taste? Holler when you get some of the scenery pictures up. I’d love to see them!
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