After a week in the Treasure State, you may find yourself talking the way John Steinbeck did in Travels with Charlie: "I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love... Montana is a great splash of grandeur. The scale is huge but not overpowering. The land is rich with grass and color, and the mountains are the kind I would create if mountains were ever put on my agenda. Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans... The frantic bustle of America was not in Montana... the towns were places to live in rather than nervous hives. People had time to pause in their occupations to undertake the passing art of neighborliness.” Be sure to allow plenty of time in your itinerary to enjoy the slower pace of life in Montana, and at the same time, make the most of your opportunity to explore -- and grow to love -- this part of the world!