Joe & Wilma's Excellent Adventures

 6/13/2024

On to Havre, Montana

After our long, hard day yesterday, we didn't have much left for today.  We moved up the road 173 miles to our next campground, which is between Chinook and Havre.  We have no phone signal here, which was a surprise since it is right off the highway.  Occasionally, we get one little dot, but then it goes away.

It was warm today, 70s.  Our drive was about 12 miles longer than necessary because Joe missed the turnoff to Peck, that we had taken several times.  So he just drove on down to the next intersection with Hwy 2, he said we hadn't seen all that road yet.  

We crossed the Milk River every time we went out, but today I finally got a picture.  Joe said it was chocolate milk.  It must be a really crooked river because we crossed it a lot of times.  But it was always chocolate.  When we drove through Malta last evening on our way home, there were kids on floats playing in it.

We saw a few pronghorn and a deer along the way today.  It was windy but not too bad.  We arrived at our campground about 1:50, got checked in, hooked up to the utilities (we have full hook-ups here), went into the RV and never came out.  Yesterday was just too much!  Fortunately, we could see 2 horses (wild?) and a pronghorn grazing on the hillside out of the window, so that was something. 

 This campground is the opposite of the COE's we have been staying at.  First of all, it is $48 with our Good Sam discount.  We have been paying $13 with our America the Beautiful discount at the COE's.  It is wide open, no trees.  The last two COE's were beautiful, grassy, shaded, view of the river.  But we are seeing some trees along the road now, and we are thinking we may be moving from Eastern Montana to Central Montana.  We are heading for Great Falls from here, on Sunday. But there were only a couple other campers in here.  The worst thing is the phone signal, or lack thereof.  They do have internet.  And a little zoo of geese, a rescued donkey, and I'm not sure what else.  The office person gave us a lot of brochures and information about the area so there is plenty to see and do if we so choose.

 

We paid $3.39 for gas yesterday.  Looks like that is about what it is at home.  Keep hoping for better prices, but we also know they could be worse.  It got down to 53 last night, and we are supposed to have a little rain this morning.  Our windshield is awful -- those little gnats come by in herds.  And we hit another bird yesterday, that makes 7 on this trip.  

Today might just be a rest day.  We will see.