Helena

As we were coming down a pass into the city of Helena, we we're accompanied by intense thunder and lightning. A bolt shot by us to the right 100 feet and left a smokey imprint in the dirt. I asked Joy if she'd ever heard of someone actually getting killed in a car from a lightning strike, and we both thought we hadn't. These things get reported on the news after all. That capped our 650 mile trek down the gorge, up through the Tri-Cities, into Spokane and over to Helena. Our first night in Pasco on Wednesday was spent in a half-star motel that scared me a little. We got an early start today and got into Helena at 5pm.