Itinerary for the Week

We will be staying at the Twin Creeks Bed and Breakfast.

Check it out at: http://www.twincreeksbb.com/

Also check out our Google Map of all of the locations we will be visiting during the week!

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?vps=1&jsv=159e&hl=en&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=116036864238970764019.000467770524ae067f954


Here is our itinerary, that is subject to change:

Monday, June 1
Travel and arrive in Montana!

• (All times are local times of the locations listed. 10am in Montana or Colorado = 11am in Nashville.)


4:30am Arrive at Nashville Airport

6:00am Depart to Denver, Colorado

7:44am Arrive in Denver Airport, change planes

9:25am Depart Denver Airport to Spokane, Washington

10:44am Arrive in Spokane Airport

11:00am Rent van from Enterprise

11:30am Depart for Montana in rental van. Stop for lunch along the road trip.

3:30pm Dr. Dykens meet with Kevin, Director of Tribal Health

5:00 pm Arrive at Twin Creeks Bed and Breakfast
Relax and explore Flathead Lake

6:30 pm Barbeque dinner at the Twin Creeks Bed and Breakfast

Relax and play games, in for the night

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Tuesday, June 2
Travel to Missoula!

9:30am Meet with Timm Vogelsberg, Executive Director/Research Professor, The University of Montana Rural Institute: Center for Excellence in Education, Research, and Service

Lunch on campus

Hike to the “M” in Missoula, on the mountain behind the University
http://www.missoulian.com/specials/hikebike/MS-mtrail.html

Go to the Big Dipper Ice cream store in Missoula

Walk around campus

Visit Lost Creek State Park in Missoula http://fwp.mt.gov/parks, if time

Dinner on the way back to the reservation

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Wednesday, June 3

9:00 Visit the People’s Center

9:45 Plant Native Flowers at the People’s Center


Volunteer with Mission Mountain Enterprises Thrift Store

Meet with Silas Perez, with Tribal Vocational Rehabilitation

Visit Bison Range (if extra time)


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Thursday, June 4

Volunteer with Rich Janssen for the Tribal Environmental Protection Agency

9:00 Come to Rich Janssen’s tribal environmental offices in Polson, cleanup camp grounds

Lunch at Salish Kootenai College

12:00 Vocational Rehabilitation Consumer Focus Forum at the Salish-Kootenai College

2:30 Tour of Salish Kootenai College


3:30 Volunteer with Mission Mountain Enterprises Thrift Store

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Friday, June 5

Help spruce up pow wow grounds with members of the People’s Center: scrape old paint off bleachers, tighten nuts and bolts, etc.


11:00am Picnic lunch hosted by Mission Mountain Enterprises at Boettcher Park in Polson.

Visit Montana's Kerr Dam, 5.1 miles southwest of Polson on Kerr Dam Road Polson, MT 59860 406-883-4450 http://www.pplmontana.com Kerr Dam is a three-unit hydroelectric plant on the Flathead River about five miles southwest of Polson and the natural outlet of Flathead Lake. The units have a total generating capacity of 196 megawatts, which can satisfy the average energy needs of about 150,00 homes and businesses. (If extra time.)


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Saturday, June 6

Visit Glacier Mountain National Park

7:00pm Pow Wow at Salish-Kootenai College


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Sunday, June 7

5:15am Depart Twin Creeks Bed and Breakfast

9:30am Arrive at Spokane Airport, return van to enterprise

Lunch at Spokane Airport

11:24am Depart Spokane airport, flight: F9 306

2:30pm Arrive in Denver Airport, change planes

3:00pm Depart Denver Airport, flight: F9 234

6:30pm Arrive at Nashville Airport



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