The Hi-Line and the Yellowstone Trail
To Glacier Park and Back Again

	This is the illustrated story of my grand western motorcycle excursion in the glorious summer of 2004. My journey from Green Bay, WI, to Glacier National Park, MT, followed Federal highways. I discovered that these routes used to have names, that they were at one time aligned with the railroads, and that the railroads of course ran along rivers. Driving the interstates nowadays, you may arrive at the notion that the roads are wholly new. They are not. They come out of the places we have always been and go to the places we have always wanted to be by trails that were old, time out of mind. I traveled 3500 mi and bought nearly 100 gal of fuel at an average cost of $1.98/gal. Mean fuel economy was 37.3 mi/gal overall and ranged between 35 mi/gal (the red line in the graph) and 40 mi/gal (the blue line). I obtained better mileage in the east where speed limits were lower.
	The Northwoods US 141 from Green Bay, WI, to Iron Mountain, MI US 2 to Wakefield, MI Bull Falls Chapin Mine Pump Chronology
	The Bois Brule US 2 to Arvilla, ND SS William A. Irvin Over the Canadian Shield Chronology
	The Buffalo Commons US 2 to Shelby, MT The Buffalo Commons Fort Union Through the Buffalo Commons Chronology
	The Rockies Glacier National Park Song of the Universal Many Glacier Two Medicine Going to the Sun The Great Northern Chronology
	The Big Sky US 2 to Browning, MT US 89 to White Sulphur Springs, MT Under the Big Sky Chronology
	The Wide Missouri US 12 to Eau Claire, WI WI 29 to Green Bay, WI Down the Yellowstone Trail Chronology