Surprise, Dave & Jane are next to us again!

We arrived in Kalispell on Monday and lo and behold Dave and Jane showed up on Tuesday next to us!  On Wednesday we drove into Glacier National Park to McDonald Lake.  We stopped at a distillery on the way back, Judy liked the chicken on the sign.

For a few bucks you can sample four of the distillery's products, Judy and Dave took advantage of the opportunity.

                                           Dave was happy with his bottle of gin.

                                       Here's Roy and Craig enjoying the afternoon.....

                                                    .....and more of the gang.

                                         And here's some of the entertainment.

Glacier National Park & Kalispell, MT

We made the 130 mile trip through Glacier to Kalispell after breakfast at McDonalds and a leisurely morning arriving about 1:30.  Here's some of the sights.......

As you can see in these two pictures some of MT is pretty desolate.

                                    Stay tuned, more pictures of mountains to come.

This is the Flathead River located across the CG street in front of us.  We watched several boats quickly floating downriver, most were fishing.  Jenny & Craig have been here almost a month and we spent some time visiting.  After we went out for dinner with Dave & Jane.

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.