I can’t seem to keep up with writing in the blog. At night when I’m trying to sleep I think about what I’m going to write, but then when the day comes I just get too busy. We (especially me) are loving the wide open spaces of the west. When I look at going back through the cities of the east to get on the east coast, I shudder. So I keep looking at different routes trying to avoid the cities for as long as possible!
However, I must go back and talk about Missoula. Gotta catch up somewhere, sometime.
From Columbia Falls and Glacier National Park, we drove south past Flathead Lake. 
We stayed at Jim and Mary’s RV park just west of Missoula The park is a really great little place. Flowers and green grass everywhere. Nice wide pull- thrus and quiet evenings. On Tuesday night they had Cowboy singing and homemade Huckleberry ice cream…yum! We sat with a lovely couple who had been fulltiming for 14 years! I wonder if we will still be going as strong after 14 years…sure hope so!!
Our primary goal for staying near Missoula was to restock before heading into Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons. So we made a trip to Costco, Super Walmart, and an organic grocery store. The refrigerator was stuffed!
But of course while in Missoula we found a couple of fun things to do.
We drove out to the National Bison Range:
There were lots of bison, but they were pretty far off the drive:
We also visited the Missoula Smokejumpers Visitors Center. We took a guided tour and were lucky to be there just as a call came in. So we were able to watch a group get suited up, loaded on the plane, and take off:
And we took a drive down the Bitterroot Valley to see the summer mansion of Marcus Daly, a copper baron. The house was built in 1910, but was boarded up after Mrs. Daly’s death in 1941 and reopened as a state facility in 1987. Amazingly the floors and walls and even window coverings remained in tact and are still the original. The house had 25 bedrooms, 15 bathrooms, and many modern conveniences such as showers and double sinks! 
Unfortunately we were not allowed to take pictures inside, but it was a beautiful home and a very interesting tour.
And so our ‘moment in Missoula’ was over and we were off to Three Forks, Montana.
6 comments:
How cool that you were there when they were taking off. But how sad that they had to be called out.
Never heard of Huckleberry ice cream. But it does sound yummy! Looks like a lovely place to be.
Its so nice hearing about your adventures!! Although we are enjoying the wedding preparations, I have a severe case of Hitch Itch and I'm very jealous of the adventure you are on....*sigh* next year!
My blog is boring to the "public" right now, because everything we are doing is pretty personal, but when I am writing like you are, I have the same issue- I think about what I want to say when I am NOT typing, then can't remember it all when I go to type (or can't be bothered typing it all!)
Have fun out there!!
Are you two coming through Kansas on your adventure back/ Would love to see you guys again.
I know what you mean about the blogging. I will be out somewhere and think I should blog about this and then by the time Is it down to blog I know there was something I wanted to write about but I can't think of what it was. Loved the photos today and we will keep checking in to see where you are. The routing thing is hard we have come to hate big cities too.
I can certainly relate to avoiding the city traffic. Actually I could avoid cities for more reasons than the traffic! I can totally relate to not knowing what to blog.....of course, since our blog is about our RV travels and we're not travelling at the moment....dah! Even harder to travel in the RV since the tree fell on it!
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