We rose at 7am to try and make an 8am departure from West Yellowstone. We had drained all the water from the camper so we had to brush our teeth and wash our faces in the campground bathroom. This is not a big deal as it is a very nice facility, but it put me way behind on my duties as the official putter-upper of the inside of the camper. I have my set ways of doing things to coincide with Tony's ways of doing the outside. He did the outside without me and it completely messed up my inside duties! This put us on the road at 8:15am. Not too bad of a start, but still not what we had hoped, but then again, we are planners and when things don't go as planned, we tend to fret.
Fretting aside, we moved on. Our entire trip minus 30 miles was all 2 lane highway through the foothills of the Rockies. Montana is full of these rolling hills with snow capped mountains in the back ground. One thing we noticed about Montana is there are very few homes between the ranches and lots and lots of cows! Cows everywhere that they even have their own cow crossing the roadway sign! We were worried about hitting a deer or a dog, but I think we should have been more worried about hitting a cow instead! Luckily, non of the above was hit, but all were seen!
After a stop in Butte to one of the friendliest Walmarts I have ever been in, we continued to head north. Tony's truck temp gauge was reading 93 degrees. I do remember him saying it was going to be in the mid 60s for the high and high 20s for the low. Once we got cell service I went to the weather channels app only to find out that those numbers were for Glacier National Park's highest point at 10,140 ft! The town we are staying in is just west of Glacier Natl. Park at just above 4,000 ft and the temps this week are to be in the high 80s for the day and high 50s at night! So of course we stocked up on RV Antifreeze and bottled water, neither of which we need right now! I'm so glad, because going a week without running water was not going to be fun! And I still get to have my french vanilla DD coffee! Yippee!!!!
We arrived at the West Glacier KOA at about 5pm. It is one of the most beautiful campgrounds we have been in thus far. I feel a little out of place because we are surrounded by multi-million dollar, and yes that is million with a capitol M, Class A buses. About 95% are Prevost models that start at $1.75 million for their simple RV, but these here have trailers to haul their motorcycles and cars. We feel we are in the low rent district looking at these gorgeous and huge RVs. One good thing about the park being full of these big rigs is most of these people are of the 55 and older crowd, so hardly any kids to keep us up at night. The last campground I think was 50% kids under 10 and boy were they loud and unsupervised! Google Prevost if you can. I tried to put in the link, but the internet here is worthless. Sorry!
Our power went out about 30 minutes into our set up. We needed ice so Tony and I headed to the camp store and found out the entire campground was without power (except for the Prevost owners who have built in generators of course!) It was over an hour before it came back on. Luckily it's very nice out, so we hung out under the awning and chilled. The girls swam a little, but with the power out, it became crowded with people trying to cool off.
We are not sure of tomorrows plan yet. I think we will sleep in a little and then make our way into Glacier Natl Park. It's a small park with huge peaks of 10,000 ft and more! We have a nice view of the foothills of these mountains and I cannot complain! I hope we get to do more hiking with this trip, but of course we have the dogs so it all depends on what we can time out. It's okay if we don't do too much. Just being up here is enough to make us happy!
We miss you all and even though we are having a great time, we are all starting to get a little home sick. We will be back soon!
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