Saturday, June 22, 2024
Last Day in Great Falls
We have really enjoyed our week-long stay in Great Falls. We had some much-needed downtime early in the week, but we also saw and did a lot of things. Great Falls is a pretty little town, not too big, easy enough to get around in, and follows the pretty Missouri River. And ------ WE SAW A BEAR! We don’t think it was a grizzly, although it was brown. Joe suggested it was a new breed of polar bear, brown instead of white, and known only to be in this area. Not long after he said that, we went by a building with a polar bear on the roof. I thought I would get a photo on our way back, but we didn't come back that way.
We got our chores done, but it took all day. Got the mud from our Bear day washed off the Jeep, picked up a few groceries, got the laundry done, and finally got the bugs washed off the windshield. We finished that about 7:00 p.m. Our laundry run took up most of our time, and the day got away from us. I had hoped to do laundry at the campground, but those machines (4) were all busy, so Joe did a search on the GPS and we headed to it. Well, the GPS took us some crazy way, across the river, and across town. We ended up in some residential area and never did see a building that looked like a business, much less a laundromat. Joe was about ready to go knock on a door and see if they did laundry for people. Anyhow, I googled it again and found the one we went to last week. We just made a big circle around town, but we got it done. One the way back to the RV, I took my only picture of the day -- the white geese we have been seeing. I enlarged it so it's a little fuzzy. We don't know if these are snow geese or something else, but we have seen them a few times.
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Joe lost his sense of direction here so that complicated things a bit. Any town that has a river by it or through it seems to be difficult to drive through because everything ends at the river. Our whole time here, Joe has been confused about what direction we are headed, even if we are out of town. I hope that improves as we head out to Glacier National Park.
I made a list of what we needed to do here, both chores and sights to see, and we checked them all off. The only thing I didn't finish was the trail of the buffalo statues. I really wanted to chase more of them down, but we ran out of time. If we ever come through here again, that will be something to do. Oh, and of course, there was another road Joe wanted to drive.
It is 64 here now (8:00 a.m. on Sunday morning), headed to a high of 90, so it's definitely time to leave. We have about 150 miles to go to Glacier, where it is currently 55, headed to 65 today, 60 tomorrow. Thursday's forecasted high is 54, then 52 Friday. That should be nice. And Paul Croxton has requested that all the wildlife be ready to show themselves to us, so we are excited for this next stop.
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