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  • Michigan 2023
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    Day 153–156

    Spokane next

    September 25, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 79 °F

    We were sorry to leave Glacier National Park but my goodness it is late September and we really need to think about getting home at some point. Hopefully we'll be back one day with some sunshine and time to hike.

    Drove on to Spokane, about a 250 mi drive. Nice drive parts of it were a long the Clark fork River which was really a beautiful drive. Drove through the town of Paradise which looked like it had gone through a pretty severe fire. Lunched at St Regis and had some puppy time in the dog park. Bison burgers with huckleberry barbecue sauce for lunch, delicious. Huckleberry is a very big thing out here in Montana.

    Got into our home for the next three nights, the North Quest RV Resort. It is attached to a casino and is relatively new, about 3 years old. Big, asphalt paved sites, beautiful check-in office and clubhouse, really nice showers and restrooms... but the trees still have a ways to go.

    Day two here at our temporary home in Spokane was really dedicated to laundry, cleaning up the RV, grocery shopping and giving Charlie a little bit more time at the dog park.

    I had my first introduction to a future bagless shopping experience. After completing about a $200 grocery purchase, I was told at the checkout that they do not offer plastic bags for 5¢ each. In the state of Washington, all Walmarts, no longer offer plastic bags. You can purchase a more durable recyclable solution for 73 cents a bag or elect to try to carry all of your items out to the car without a bag. I relented and bought two bags but the rest of the items I packed into the cart, rolled it to the jeep, packed them all into the jeep, drove to the RV park and unloaded all those single items into the RV. I really appreciate the plastic bag issue at this moment. I will probably never forget to walk in a store without my own bags!    Read more

  • Michigan 2023
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    Day 152

    Charlie time at Moose Creek

    September 24, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 59 °F

    Got back to Moose Creek RV pretty late in the day. But we still needed to give Charlie her time. She is very good about simply sleeping the day away in the RV while we gone. So she got a little more play time with Olive and Pepper!Read more

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    Day 152

    Back out of the Park

    September 24, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 63 °F

    Headed back into the park via St Mary's Visitor Center on the east side. I had hoped by this afternoon that some of the haze that we had been seeing all day might burn off but that wasn't really the case. So you won't see any pictures of glaciers because the view just wasn't that clear.

    So our first real stop was at Logan pass which we drove through on our way in the morning. We were treated to a site of a small group of Big Horn sheep just up the hill from the center.
    Unfortunately it was late in the day so we had about 5 minutes in the visitor center which allowed me to buy one more sticker for our trip. In fact I think the center is now closed for the year.

    Continued to follow the road out of the park and stopped periodically to enjoy all the cliffs around us. This road really is a beautiful road to drive although it can be very tight against the cliff faces in a few places.

    On the way out we did stop at Lake McDonald to take a peek at the lodge there and the lake. Similar to many glaciers this lodge was also closed. But a really pretty setting would have liked to have seen this open. We did get to see a couple of the red tour buses that still run today with tours through the park.

    And our last stop was Apgar Village at the other end of Lake McDonald (10 miles long) A fun stop, several shops and restaurants; so we indulged in some 🍦 ice cream!    Read more

  • Michigan 2023
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    Day 152

    Back into Many Glaciers

    September 24, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 48 °F

    As I mentioned in the last footprint you drive out of the east entrance of the park get to a little town of Babb and then drive back into the park in a slightly more northern section. This entrance into the park takes you to the Many Glaciers area. There is a lot of hiking out of this area, particularly to Grinnell Glacier. They also have a lodge located here on Swiftcurrent Lake, unfortunately it was late in the season and was closed. I would have liked to have seen the interior because it is one of the older lodges.

    I didn't do the hike to Grinnell which is 11 mi round trip, but I did have enough time to do a short 2 and 1/2 mi walk around Swiftcurrent Lake. Really enjoyed my time and had a lot of different views of the surrounding peaks. I didn't see much animal life except at the very beginning of my hike when I saw a small herd of Big Horn sheep uphill from the trail.

    Back to the car where Tom was waiting, (patiently) for me to complete a hike. How could I miss hiking it Glacier- it's what you do! It was a great drive out, (this part of the park) we had two different bear sightings. One was pretty far uphill from us and really was just a big brown blob on the rock, but the second one was right by the road and completely observable. Neither of us had ever been this close to a bear. It was really exciting. (We were in the car which helped!)    Read more

  • Michigan 2023
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    Day 152

    Going to the Sun...and back again

    September 24, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 46 °F

    Got on the road at about 9:00 or so which is pretty good for us. It was a short drive to the entrance of the park. We drove out the going to the sun road with the intention that we would also return by the same road. Most recommendations include the drive both ways because you see entirely different vistas.

    We actually used the Guide Along app (like we did in Yellowstone) to point out the various significant features of the drive, and some of the history to the park.

    We pretty much drove the entire drive to the east side and then out to the little town of Babb and back into the park to see the Many Glaciers area. On the way out of the east side, we had a couple of wildlife encounters. The largest one of course was the black bear. The picture is not very good but he was right by the roadside and our car actually scared him up the hill. Exciting to see.

    Took a quick stop at the Saint Mary's visitor center.    Read more

  • Michigan 2023
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    Day 151

    Heading to Glacier NP

    September 23, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 63 °F

    Finally on the road to Glacier National Park. It looks like the weather's going to be fine. We have never seen this park so we are looking forward to our first visit.

    The drive-thru Northern Montana was beautiful rolling hills lots of cattle ranches and meandering creeks. A substantial part of the drive was a long Flathead Lake, The road literally followed the shoreline in some places. Big huge lake.

    We checked into our RV park, moose Creek RV late in the afternoon. It's only 5 miles from the park entrance. Nice RV park with most of the sites separated by trees. They also had a great fenced-in dog park for Charlie. It's been interesting because most dog parks have not been fenced in so it's always difficult to give her a really good play time. This one was not only fenced in but she got to meet two very good size Bassetts, Olive and Pepper. They all enjoyed playing with each other tremendously.    Read more

  • Michigan 2023
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    Day 150

    West again!

    September 22, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 54 °F

    Well we didn't get very far down the road. We were going to check out a ghost town, bannock State Park, but decided the 20 mile out (and then back) might not be worth it. And some of the road was gravel... So we just stayed in an RV park on the outskirts of Dillon Montana.

    Enjoyed our dinner of fresh produce from Jeff's greenhouse!    Read more

  • Michigan 2023
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    Day 150

    Visit with Jeff and Dina

    September 22, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 39 °F

    Enjoyed our steak dinners and then went back to the Young's house which is approximately four houses down from the restaurant. We slept in the RV out front and had a comfortable night.

    Woke up the next morning and enjoyed a slow breakfast with Jeff and Dina. Hot coffee, toast with honey berries (the new "superfood"), and some venison sausage patties, yum.

    We all loaded up in Gina's SUV and took off for a drive out Sheep Creek road. It pretty much ends up being a canyon drive that is intermittently broken up with small valleys containing ranches. Sheep Creek meanders through these valleys and through the canyon and the road pretty much follows it. Unfortunately I have no pictures! Just a beautiful drive in spite of the weather.    Read more

  • Michigan 2023
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    Day 149

    West to Lima, Mt

    September 21, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 48 °F

    Today is the perfect example of why Google maps can put you in a bind. Instead of following the map directions on our (RV specific) Garmin unit we followed Google. What was supposed to be a 2-hour drive from West Yellowstone to Lima Montana ended up being three and a half hours including a 20 mi stretch of a muddy, washboard gravel road. We drove this at about 8 to 10 mph, hence the extended duration. Even the cows looked vaguely surprised at our presence, a 30 ft RV towing a Jeep with two bikes on the back. We flagged down a couple of passing vehicles all of them heading to some hunting spot to make sure the road did go somewhere?? One of them looked at us and let us know he wouldn't have brought his RV out here. Never had really good news, like '"oh just another mile". But finally after an extended period of rattling and bumping along we found pavement again. One of God's greatest blessings, paved roads!

    Finally arrived in Lima at just about dark. Met Jeff and Dina Young at Johnny Peat's steakhouse. According to Dina it has been voted the best steakhouse in Montana last year. I had a Caesar salad with steak and it was delicious. Tender, flavorful, exactly what you would want. Great end to the day.    Read more

  • Michigan 2023
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    Day 149

    Leaving Yellowstone

    September 21, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 43 °F

    Since we were camped at Fishing Bridge we still had lots of park time in the morning on the way out. We were able to go through Hayden Valley one more time and had views of the bison. (besides the lone bison that helped us out of the campground! Honestly, these bison just show up in the most random, unexpected locations.)

    Then we got up to Canyon Village and did the brink of the falls overlook, and then a couple of stops for the canyon view. Beautiful day, great sunlight, thoroughly enjoyed our last visits.    Read more

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