Back on the road

I couldn't sleep last night. Not sure why. At 4:30am, I told myself if I didn't fall asleep, I'd get up at 5am. So that is what I did!

I was on the road at 6:30am. I stopped to get gas right over the Idaho border. $4.19 a gallon beats the costs at home! ($5 pg) There was a ton of road construction on I-90. My first stop was supposed to be a rest area that I always stop at. It was in the middle of a construction zone and I missed the exit. I actually looked around and should have stopped at the westbound side, but I didn't. I turned around at the exit and looked really hard for the entrance. But I didn't see it. I could see trucks, so it was open.

I gave up, losing about 20 minutes. I did have to go to the bathroom and luckily there was a gas station another 15 minutes away. There, I did all the things I wanted to take care of, like repacking from this part of the trip.

The rest of the drive was beautiful and uneventful. I stopped in Kalispell to full up, then drove the rest of the way to Bar W.

It is the hours between the guests leaving and new ones coming to the guest ranch. Fortunately, I knew the lay of the land and found someone. They introduced me to Cam, who is one of the wranglers for the cattle drive. I unloaded my stuff, parked my car, and Cam took me into Whitefish. I am meeting him at the library at 2:20!Read more