Welcome back to Montana

Yesterday (Monday, 17 September) we drove down into Gardiner to a shop that carry’s the yummiest huckleberry candles you’ll ever smell. They were closed of course, figures. Since we were down there we figured we’d drive into the park (Yellowstone National) and renew our pass. We used to have the Golden Eagle pass, but they replaced it with the Interagency Pass, or something like that.

We bought our new pass at the front gate (north entrance) and drove into the park. Not even 5 miles in we got to see one of the only animals we’ve never seen in the park before and we’ve been coming to Yellowstone every year for the last 4 years. That’s right a family of Bighorn Sheep. We’ve seen these guys in the Badlands, but never in Yellowstone. We sure got to see them this day. When we drove in they were all in the river. On our way out they had started to cross the street and go up the hill. It was really pretty cool.

We continued to drive in, figured we’d make a u-turn at Mammoth and head back home, it was dinnertime after all. But driving up to Mammoth paid off, we got to see a big bull Elk who had just sat down for a rest. The elk are in the Rut right now so you have to be very careful, this guy looking pretty worn out, all that mating I guess, and there weren’t any females with him. They get very defensive when they are with their harem.

All in all it was a very eventful, quick trip into the park. We are going to go in again today and actually drive the park. We’ll pack up a lunch and spend the day there.

It’s SO good to be back on the road.

Cheers~
;-)K

Starting From Scratch

So I was going to go through and post images from our time in Florence, OR but I’m losing patience with that. I can’t find some of the pictures I wanted to post and I so don’t have the patience to hunt through the 20-50 discs of images that we’ve collected. I’ve made the executive decision to start from scratch.

This is a new adventure for us, with a new house (RV), and a new way of doing things. So we’ll start over.

We left Florence on the 12th of September and stayed in Portland for a few days to get our bearings and see the guys. While in Portland, Bill and I finally made it to Voodoo Doughnut. This place has been featured on a couple of different travel shows and has become a bit of a Portland Icon. They used to only be open from like 8pm till 6am or something like that for the late-night crowd. Since being featured on TV they have changed that to being open 24/7. I guess that’s the price of fame.

I’ve had doughnuts at Krispy Kreme’s across the country, we’ve even made the drive to Austin, TX (we were in the area already) for Round Rock Donuts. As far as doughnuts go, Voodoo wins just because they are unique. Yes, they do normal doughnuts, but they also get a little bizarre and even they’re normal doughnuts are better than some places. If you’re in PDX and craving a doughnut, check them out.

We departed PDX on Saturday morning and drove through to Spokane, WA. Spent one overnight in Spokane and from there drove into Montana on Sunday. We will be here in our favorite place in MT until Wednesday morning then start the trek south. I’ll be posting as we go. We will be stopping and staying in places we’ve never been before so that will be exciting. I’ve started carrying our ‘little’ camera with me in my purse so we don’t have to have moments of “that’s totally awesome, wish we remembered the cameras”. Our little camera is a Cybershot 7 or 8 megapixels (can’t remember).

Since I don’t have any ‘new pictures to post here, here are a couple of the ‘new’ house. These aren’t shots of our actual house, but pictures that Bill snatched off the internet of an RV that is the same make and model (mostly) as ours. These pictures are also the same interior colors as ours.

That’s it for now, stay tuned, there WILL be more coming soon.
Cheers~
;-)K