Sept 17, 2016 started the Sand Spring journey across the US to Ronan Montana so we could attend the American Chesapeake Club National Field Trial Specialty. Our journey started the Friday before when I went to O’Hare airport to pick up my friend Jacky from across the pond (England). Jacky wanted to see the mountains as well as the field trial so the journey begins.

Our journey started out in WI we then headed to MN where we stopped at our friend’s Mike and Lisa house and dropped off Preacher. This will be Preacher’s new home along with her aunt Pearl. We then took off across MN to ND. At first I thought ND was boring, it was flat and not much to see, it wasn’t until we got to the western side of ND when the sites changed. This is what we saw.

The bluffs were beautiful! We stopped in Bismarck ND to spend the night, the next morning we hit the road again on our way to MT.

Hello Montana!

About 26 hours later of driving we made it to Big Sky country where the mountains were a beautiful site.

We stayed at the Ninepipes hotel in Charlo, MT. This was an awesome hotel that was dog friendly. Jacky took the above picture one morning after stepping out the patio door of her room. What a beautiful site it was to wake up to each day and to go to bed to each night. We picked the right hotel to spend our time at for the next week. Our trip out was uneventful and the fun was about to begin starting on Monday the 19th when we met up with the Minnesota guys for a morning of training before the field trial was going to begin.