Today's drive was mostly through scenic countryside on good roads with
moderate traffic, an occasional pedestrian, and spotty rain.
When I started judging where I might end up tonight, the town of Jasper
looked like a definite possibility. I certainly liked the town and food
and beverage weren't at all over priced but the price I'd paid for my room
there was one of the highest of the trip. I wanted to avoid repeating that
and started looking east and west from Jasper. I found a promising motel
about a hundred miles west of Jasper in the town of McBride. There were
actually two motels in town that fit my criteria plus I recognized the
town name. A friend named McBride has some friends who passed through here
just a few years ago and mentioned it to him. He mentioned it to me.
The Bell Mountain
Motel is a true mom-and-pop (I met them both.) and very well
maintained. I'm in room #18 and I do not know
what's behind the green door. The owners turned me on to a great place to
eat. I knew where it was as soon as they mentioned it because the
ign/tree trunk is the first and biggest thing you see approaching McBride
from the west. Good thing, I suppose, since the
Gigglin' Grizzly doesn't seem to have any other form
of identification.
