Montana: Big Sky Country We pulled into Billings, MT with a collective sigh of relief after the full-throttle cross-country press. Lovers of open spaces, big peaks, and rugged landscapes, we started to feel the love for “Big Sky Country” creep into our cold Yankee hearts. We had made it west.
From the headwaters of the Yellowstone River nestled in Rosebud Canyon to the butterfly-inducing stretch of road known as the Beartooth Highway, Montana quickly fills you up. There’s a good reason Robert Pirsig travels the epic road in the book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – it forces you to consider your place in the world and inspires a presence of mind while in the saddle that few other places I’ve been can claim.…