Holy Shit!

So this is a pic I found on the intenet with some additional information.

Our Lady of the Rockies is a 90-foot statue sitting atop the Continental Divide located on the East Ridge of Butte off of I-15. Our Lady of the Rockies is the end result of a dream and six years work. A seemingly impossible task was completed by countless volunteers on December 20, 1985 when ‘Our Lady” was placed on the East Ridge overlooking Butte, Montana.

The statue, lighted and visible at night, is a spectacular sight to see. To give you an idea of the dimensions; Our Lady is 90 feet high, 48 feet wide (from fingertip to fingertip), and weighs 51 tons. The overall statistics are: the head (16 feet high by 10 feet wide), eyes (2 feet), nose (4 feet), nose (4 feet), lips (3 feet), hands (8 feet) fingers (3 1/2 feet to 5 feet), and the base (32 feet by 34 feet).

And I thought Oprah was a whole lotta lovin.

Downtown Butte, what a hoot

A view of Butte. Ever been there? Don't worry you didn't miss much. However 10 minutes later, I view one of the most bizzare things I've ever seen. I kept seeing this white thing high on the ridge above Butte. As I view through the binocs, I say out loud "Jesus H. Christ."

Later we go back to the campground and ask a local. "Who is that on the ridge? Is it Mary or Jesus?" The response was "Neither, that is our lady of the Rockies....." OK, I give up, WHO IS our lady of the rockies...Our lady of the rockies....Hmmmm. I don't get it.

Later research determines it's Mother Mary of God, of course...I mean of who else would you build a 90 foot statue? It is wrong to expect the locals to know about a 90 foot statue outside their hometown?

Historical Butte Montana

Historic Butte Montana, where they found first gold, then silver, then copper. Too bad they didn't find anything to keep this little po-dunk town alive 100 years later. Little did I soon discover there was something grand looming on the horizon.....

He had no teeth!

Our neighbor @ the RV park in Butte. His trailer was a little smaller than ours. Just joking about the teeth. He had one and it was worn down to his blackened gums.

Interstate 15

The open road ahead. Mrs Dirtbagger is scouting ahead for Smokies, while I barrel down the road in 8 tons of V-10 power. This is actually I-15 in southwestern Montana about 2 hours south of Butte. Notice the amount of traffic in the middle of the day.