My Life and Travels
We left Yellowstone this morning and drove 19 miles to Bakers Hole FS Campground 4 miles north of West Yellowstone. We are in site 63 only a few feet from the Madison River. This site does not have electricity but it has the view and with our portable solar panel and generator we are fine. We can stay here for 16 night at $8.00 a night. Signed up for seven nights to start and the level fishing will decide what we will do next.
View out the couch windows.
Madison Campground, Campsite C113.
We went back into Missoula today, Richard and Vickie were having problems with their motor home. It sounded like the catalytic converter had gone bad. Richard found a shop who would look at it, after working on it for half a day they finally decided to do a reboot on the engines computer. For some reason the computer had put itself into limp mode. They didn’t know why however rebooting fixed the problem. Very nice of this independent show to spend so much time working on it on a Saturday with NO notice.
We are ar Lewis and Clark Caverns for a couple of days, in site E001.
Today’s drive
Across Northern Idaho into Montana.
We are just east of Missoula for tonight and tomorrow. The forest service campground I wanted to stay in up in the mountains is not open.
The camp host said they had 2-3 inches of snow here yesterday. They spent most of the morning picking up downed tree branches.
We are a half mile south of I-90. This is real camping, we are under a large tree and can not get satellite radio or TV. I could move the TV dish off the motor home but Jean said to skip it because the only show she watches tonight is on CBS and we wouldn’t get CBS any way. Here Friday night and move to Lewis and Clark Caverns State Park for Saturday and Sunday.
Tanya sent us a video of Jack taking his first steps today.
Drove across Washington today, left the big house at 10:00 am.
Big house and little house.
Tonight’s camp.
And I got to go in the store after dinner and Hank’s walk.
It is a big store.
Today’s drive
Quick overnight on our way to the big house.
Today’s drive started out cold with a few clouds. Heading west we soon had the clouds drop down on us and start snowing.
This is today’s drive to Farewell Bend State Park.
Got site 74, pull through with a little view of the river.
Nice spring day.
Today’s drive.
Yes these pictures are very much the same. They are both pictures of Harry driving on ICE and SNOW on the 9th of April.
This is one of the many passes on Hwy 50, we are just East of Ely, NV.
Driving up the pass their was a semi stopped in the road just before the top of the pass. I was able to drive around him when I discovered the ice and snow on the road which stopped him. The road is a 6 to 7% grade and I guess he was going so slow when he got to the ice he was unable to keep moving.
We were early enough to get a spot to stop. This was a good time for breakfast and wait for the road to clear. We got to the top at 8:00 a.m. and the first two sand truck came through at 8:10. They several passes blading the ice and dumping a lot of salt and sand on the road. By 9:00 the road was melted (about an inch of ice) and the Highway Patrol stopped to say the road was clear going east.
The plan was to spend the night at Hayspur Hatchery Campground, however the campground was closed. It is a one lane road into the hatchery and campground and with the campground closed I only had limited options to turn around. I needed up having to unhook the pickup to get turned around.
We ended at a rest stop just down the main road on the way to Sun Valley.
It was cold, 27 degrees in the morning.
Here is Jack’s 9 month picture.
We did not get as far as we had planned. We were on Hwy 93 just north of I-15 when Richard called to say the wind was blowing in Sparks and peaking at 70 mph. He was giving us a head’s up for the weekend, it usually takes one to two days for a weather front to get across the state. We decided to pull into Cathedral Gorge, the campground is in a valley and a good place to set out a storm. Will be here at least until Sunday. One of the park rangers said the weather should get here late Friday into Saturday. Jean and I spent almost a week here several years ago setting out a rain storm. I’ll have to look that up in the logbook. It is the year I-15 washed out south of St. George.
In site 13.
By the way Hank loves the cooler temperatures.
I think we will stay here two nights than drive the 300 miles to Ely Nevada. As you know the farther north we go the cooler it gets.
This year in site 143, last year 145.
