August 10-24th 2019 Kelispell, Montana

Well it’s been a few weeks so I figured I had better catch up on my blog!!
The past few weeks have been a whirlwind!! Trying to get the broken windshield replaced. It arrived at Glass Dr on the 19th after the trucking company lost the darn thing twice (claimed it was sitting in a warehouse)😤 and upon opening the crate??? It was broken in 2 places!!!! Really??? So it was reordered. In the meant time we have had some good adventures. We just decided God wanted us to stay in Kelispell, Mt for awhile.
We went to Canada on the 17th for the while day. Visited a few towns there, shopped!! Things were much cheaper!! I actually bought some Christmas presents!! 😉
We spent the day on Sunday the 18th at Hungry Horse National Park !! The views there were outstanding and a beautiful sunny cool day!! 68 degrees!!!
Monday the 19th we had another oops!! The steps on the motor home decided to quit working!!! We just replaced them about a year ago!!!!😤😤
We tried to get parts ordered from the RV store but no luck. So we will have to order through the last company but right now we don’t know where to have them shipped to!!! Got to be in a place for a week for them to ship and arrive. So as of now we are using a small ladder!!  It works!!!
We have made such good friends here at the campground Spruce RV Resort.
We have been beside a young girl named Hannah with 3 small children Eliah age 7 Lola’s age 5 and Norah age 2 !  They are moving here from Indiana and will not close on their home till Sept 6. Her husband, James is a helicopter pilot and works 1 week then off 1 week. They send him everywhere so it does not matter where they live. We have had lots of fun with the kids and helping Hannah keep them occupied as they are living in a small 25 ft camper.
We also met a couple Chris and Bonnie that are here as she is a traveling nurse and he is working on his Masters degree online. We have played a lot of UNO at night with them. What a great group
people God put in our path!!! We felt so blessed!!!
Yesterday the 23rd Glass Pro called 9am and said come on down!!! The windshield is here!
Took them 4 hours. We rode around shopped at michaels, pet owner, Walmart and ate at chic fil a!! We had Lexie so had to go where she could go !! Lol
Today the 23rd we said our goodbyes to the great friends we had made and headed to North Dakota
Theodore Roosevelt National Park. We drove 6 hrs and stopped at Lowe’s for the night!! Thank you Lowe’s!! Lol
On to the park tomorrow for a few days!!
Got a few pics to share!! The big air ballon went up several times while we were in the RV Park!!
Love to all,  Ms. Fran & Cap’n Rod

August 6-9th 2019 Kelispell, Montana

August 6th.  We said goodbye to to Columbia Fall RV and only drove 15 miles south to Kelispell. Montana and checked in to Spruce Pines RV Park. I had.made reservations here as this is the only place they could find on our route that had the ability to replace our Motor home windshield. Not every glass company can do this!!! So here we are for one week and glass has been shipped but won’t arrive till next Tuesday the day we are suppose to leave here!!! Glass Dr is letting us camp out in their parking lot overnight since they will be replacing Wednesday morning. This time of year out here if you don’t have reservation at least a week in advance you don’t have a place to stay. You might find a campground but it will be a dump !!!!  Lol  We went to Glass Dr on Wednesday the 7th super nice people and said they would need 5 hours to put in the windshield and spending the night in their lot was not a problem at all. So we are set pending delivery of the glass!!!!
Aug 7th.  We were told about a good RV parts store as we need to replace a water pump for our fresh water when not connected to a water source. It has a small leak, but don’t want to take the chance of if it becoming not functional when we are traveling. So this will Be Rod’s job tomorrow to replace!!
Aug 8th day!! First cloudy day we have seen in months!! Suppose to rain tomorrow so it’s a must Rod gets the outside work done today. Like replace the water pump!!! Lol  It’s been a stay at home day.
Aug 9th. We stayed at home all day yesterday. Even though Rod had chores to be completed and they did get done, he is ready to ride again!! He can not sit still for long!! LOL
We drove to some of the small towns around the mountains Homestead, Lakeside, Polson, and Elmo. Beautiful small towns at the base of the mountains. We had lunch at Homestead Cafe. Just enjoyed the ride, the views for the first time since we have left home in June IT RAINED!!!  Lol
We were coming back into Kelispell and what is sitting in the parking lot of a grocery store???  THE OSCAR MEYER WIENER TRUCK!!!! I made Rod whip our little car right over there!!! We took pics!! Got me an Oscar Meyer wiener whistle!!! And free hot dog!!! It’s a day to remember. I’ve always wanted to run into it somewhere in my travels and now I can say  YES I have seen it!!! Lol
We have a few days to rest up before our adventures begun again.
Love to all, Ms. Fran & Cap’n Rod
PS All the great views we have seen, you can tell what really made an impression on me the last few days!!   LOL

August 1-5, 2019 Glacier National Park Montana

We arrived at Columbia Falls RV Park, Montana early afternoon. Got set up, and went to Glacier National Airport to pick up my dear Friend Cathy Burnside!! She arrived at 5:30pm. We rested up and planned our adventures in Glacier while enjoying my chicken bog!! Lol
We took off the next morning (Friday) and went to the visitors center and drove through a lot of the park. We hiked the Trails of cedars, and Trail to Avalanche Lake. OK this was a 4.2 miles!!! A bit much for me but the incredible view on the arrival to Avalanche Lake was well worth the hike!!!
Only God could provide such a view!!! I’ll post pics but man it can not show the incredible views of this place!!
Saturday. After recovery of yesterday and a good nights rest we took off again by car to ride the 52 miles on the “Road to the Sun” again some of the most incredible views possible!!
Cathy had scheduled us a bus tour for all day tomorrow to take this road with a tour guide!!!!
Sunday. We met our Tour guide they are called “Jammers”. Our guide was  Jammer Glen !!!!  What a historic and fact filled tour about the park. Rod got to ride up front with Jammer Glen. We were with 7 other people on the bus!! Pics attached!! Another BUCKET LIST event!!! It could not have been a better day and shared with a very special friend.
Monday we slept in and then took Cathy to the airport to depart for home.  We all agreed it was an incredible 3 day event in our life. Funny how we started off every morning with jeans, sweatshirt and jacket and by the afternoon we were down to shorts and a t shirt and hot!!
I wish I could share the 322 pics I took in the last few days !! They are all incredible. I wish each of you could visit this park. We have been to many national parks and each have their own personality and landscape. So a favorite is hard to pic but this was in the top of the list!
Love to all, Ms. Fran & Cap’n Rod

Wild horses

July 26-31, 2019 Trout Creek, Montana

We arrived in Trout Creek, Montana late afternoon. We did not intend to be there today the 26th. But got to our casino in Pendleton, Idaho where we planned to boondock for the night. And they were having a hugh concert the next day and we did not want the crowded lot and all the party people. So we moved on after some great advise from a Walmart employee of a place to get and oil change on our motor home and little car “sparky”.  This place was superb!! They pulled in the MH, then pulled in sparky and also did the oil change on our generator!! So we are set on Servive till we get back home!!

Drove for a while (till 11pm) and found a rest area for campers only.  That’s Idaho for this service!!! Nice place to sleep for a while. 

We started out the next morning and I called the Trout Creek RV Park to see if they could take us a day early. They only had a dry dock site for the night, but that was ok as we can be totally self sufficient. 

The next morning we moved into our site with power, water and sewer. 

We had scheduled to stay here as a lay over to Glacier Nation Park which had been reserved several months ago. We spent the 3 days resting cleaning and planning our adventure in Glacier. 

Trout Creek is known for its yearly Huckleberry Festival which of course is next week Aug 7-10. 

We enjoyed some bike riding and did drive to Thompson Falls to check out its suggested history from a couple we met at the park. We walked the town had brunch at Minnie’s Cafe and had the honor of meeting a WWII Purple Heart recipient Norman Ovitt!! He had to have been in his 90s  He was so sweet. We felt honored to meet him And we were blessed to buy his breakfast. The waitress said he came in most days to eat there! We enjoyed our time in the town and it’s quaintness!!

We did enjoy several huckleberry mike shakes during our time at Trout Creek!!! Lol

This was a good layover and a few restful days before Glacier Park!!

Love to all, Ms. Fran & Cap’n Rod 

Huckleberry milkshake

One empty!!!!

Did I even see One??  NO

Trout Creek

Bicycling on the lake