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!
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!
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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