Go Grizzlies!

One of the coolest things about Bethel is the small town friendly people vibe. When you meet people here, everybody is very friendly and people often invite you over to their house for dinner. I think we've been over to people's houses more since we arrived in Bethel than during our entire 3 years in Michigan! It's just a little challenging to figure out what to bring as you can't bring a nice bottle of wine. So par for the course, when we went to set up our bank account, the bank manager noticed my driver's license and said that he also was from Missoula. He was a Hellgate High graduate in 1984 and remembered Dawson's brother. He invited us over to his house for dinner and took us for a tour of the town in his big Suburban with grizzly plates. He took us out to an old abandoned military camp where you can climb up on a building and see endless miles of tundra. The tundra doesn't show up very beautiful in pictures, but it is actually quite beautiful. Especially right now as the foliage is changing colors (the blueberry bushes are bright red!). Another cool thing about a lot of people here is that Bethel isn't really a place you move just for the fun of it. Most people have some kind of plan to make a lot of money and then do something cool (like travel for a year and move to a small town in the west where you don't need very much money). So it's always exciting to hear other people's plans. There are quite a few people here from Montana. Go Grizzlies!