On the Road Again .....

Sept 30/2012
We left Swan Lake RV at 11:15 on a beautiful sunny 60F day. We stopped for lunch at the Rhone Rest Area before Greenwood. Afternoon temps reached 77F. Leaves just starting to turn and really vibrant in the sunshine. We checked into the Christina Lake Golf Course RV park and had a very quiet night. We were the only ones there except for the deer.

Oct 1/2012
We got away from Christina Lake at 8:30 AM (50F) and cleared the US border minutes later without incident but had to surrender 2 bags of tomatoes and 2 peppers. We had an interesting bridge crossing before Kettle Falls -no traffic over 8.5 ft wide allowed because they were paving one side of the bridge deck. We are 11 ft wide across the mirrors but went very slowly and made it across safely !! We hit Spokane at 11:00 and it took us over a half hour getting across town. We were at Post Falls, ID at noon so caught a Carl's Jr burger on the run as we fuelled up at Love's. It was a smokey drive across Montana with evidence of many graqss fires along the road. We checked into the 2 Bar Lazy H RV Park at Rocker a few miles before Butte, MN at 6:40, which immediately became 7:40 due to a missed time change. We drove 431 miles today.

Oct2/2012
Away from Butte at 8:15 at 50F. We crossed over the Continental Divide (6329 ft) east of Butte. Lots of steep grades both up and down. Prairie foothills with lots of cattle, reminding us of the Drumheller area. 77F by noon. Lots of hay and corn fields west of Billings, and coal port and many refineries and some sunflower fields.Burrito lunch stop at a rest area south of Billings. Passed the Little Big Horn Battlefield. Hundreds of small white bellied deer and windmills in the valley before Caspar, WY. Checked into Ft Caspar Campground at 6:45 (Passport America). The park was full but they gave us a spot on the river with a power cord after calling 3 other parks, also full. We drove 509 miles today.