Occasionally Interesting, often not

We took a trip to Missoula, Montana, over the July 4th weekend to visit kin, and it was a wonderful escape from big city life. Missoula is a vibrant place for its size, and pretty cosmopolitan feeling. The downtown core is like a scaled down big city downtown, with galleries, restaurants, interesting shops, farmers' markets, chocolate shops, antique market, you name it. Everyone we met was exceedingly friendly and it didn't hurt that the weather was fantastic. Let's start with my favorite subject, food. We started the trip, arriving on July 4 itself, and had a very nice bbq at someone's house just outside of town. Standard fare, burgers, but when we mentioned that the burgers were really good, the reply was, "oh, the meat is from my sister's farm". Don't hear that very often! We had 3 fine breakfasts. First was at The Catalyst , that had fantastic bacon and assorted tasty breakfast dishes. Next day was at Sean Kelley's , an Irish bar that also ser...