Cut Bank, MT

We really didn't know what to do.....go or stay in Wolf Point.  The weather is crappy with lots of rain but the wind has died down.  Tomorrow there should be no rain.  Stay or go?  If we go, go where?  I want paved or gravel CGs, no driving on saturated grass or dirt and getting stuck.  We were up before 7am but at 9:45am the rain almost stopped and this CG is depressing so we rushed and packed up and split.  It rained almost all the way all day.  We thought with such a late start we'd go ~200 miles to Havre.  I guess we got use to driving in the ran and we passed through Harve and went another 120 miles to Cut Back, MT; a 333 mile day.  The most miles towed with the latest start time and in the worst weather.  We arrived in Cut Bank about 5pm and were happy.

    

                                           Along the way................on a rainy day....

We have been seeing lots of these, rolling oil lines, wouldn't a pipeline that doesn't move be safer?  Why would the federal government want to do something that was intelligent?

It has been raining hard and steady for over a day and a half.

We saw a couple folks standing beside the road, we assumed they lived here.

Rain, rain, rain.

We saw a couple groups of farmers with tractors powering pumps trying to drain their fields and crops.  These farmers and ranchers will have to wait many days before they can get back into their fields.

Small grain silos must be cheaper by the dozen.

Trains. we have been seeing lots of long trains.  I'll bet the shipping container trains are full of Christmas stuff from China.

The Cut Bank river behind us.

Judy and a friend.

What a shock....I'm sitting here updating the blog and Dave (Bahnmiller) walks in the door!  We had talked back in July of meeting here and HERE HE IS!

Jean, we are thinking of you.