Saturday, August 3, 2024
Leaving Montana
Today we said goodbye to Yellowstone. We were out of our campsite by 9:30 and on the road. As we came through West Yellowstone,there was a car show going on at the park and on the west end just out of town, was a “living history encampment” ( of tents) selling Indian crafts. We drove through that tent area yesterday, but nothing was open yet. Six days at Yellowstone at our age and condition was enough. It wore us out, but we thoroughly enjoyed every day there. Highway 20 heading west out of West Yellowstone seems to be a continuation of activities. We saw an artist ranch and a couple of trail rider groups and sign that said there’s a rodeo tonight.
We crossed the state line into Idaho at 9:40.
When we started making our plans for this summer‘s travel, we had decided we wanted to spend some time in Montana. Our thought was that we would find a place to stay maybe for a month at a time. Well, that didn’t work out. Montana is such a big state that you can’t see all of it from one or two areas, so we ended up spending a week at a time at several different locations. We spent 8 weeks (55 days) in Big Sky Country and saw a lot of wonderful things. For the most part, the weather was very accommodating. And we ended it with six days at Yellowstone National Park, one of our favorite places.
In my “wish library of diamond shaped warning signs” that I wish I had started, we came across a new one today: “Recreational Crossing.” Of course we don’t spend a lot of time in snowmobile country but we have seen snowmobile crossing signs. I guess this would include other things too. Cross-country skiing? Others?
We went through Ashton, Idaho, which proclaims itself to be the world’s largest seed potato producing area . Who knew??
We started seeing fields of potatoes on the southside of Idaho Falls.
We went through Idaho Falls and continued on to Fort Hall Indian Reservation Casino where we had reservations for the night. We arrived about 12:45 and check-in wasn’t until 2:00. We called from the parking lot because we didn’t see the RV park. They first told us we couldn’t check in yet but when we went in to the reservation desk, they did let us check in. This casino has full hook ups, so we got set up, rested for a while. For some reason, our electricity kicked off. We thought it was the Campground, but I talked to a lady across from us and they were not having trouble so Joe started investigating and found a reset button and we were back in business. We went over to the casino for dinner, when we came back, we still had electricity, but it kicked off again after we went to bed and he could not get it to reset so we had no air conditioning for the night. With this motorhome, it has been one problem after another.
It was 95° when we got to the campground and we had some wind during the night but no rain. We drove 151 miles today. We should make it to Utah tomorrow.
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