Wednesday, April 14, 2010

4:45 AM- a knock on the door. A local sheriff said we can't park here for the night. Right behind the fence are live wolves and our generator disturbs them! So we drove 1 mile outside of town and pulled over in a truck stop to sleep again. We passed a yellow flashing sign- "Animals in Road"! We didn't see anything.
At 10:30 we went to West Yellowstone and the road is closed until Friday. Now we have to go the long way up #191 past Big Sky Ski Resort. The speed limit sign says 60 in day, 55 at night. We're riding alongside the Gallatin River on a curvy road- following the river driving between the river and the mountain. Glad it's not icy- no where to slide to! They're getting the campgrounds ready for Friday. We saw a guy fishing in the river. Bet it's cold! There are several rafting companies and buses getting ready also.
We rode through Bozeman first- good sized town with your regular stores. Called a RV park 2 times and all they had was an answering machine. So we left to drive to Livingston. Halfway there, the RV park from Bozeman called us. Too late! Livingston is quite laid back, strange looking old campers all patched up. This RV Park backs up to a small farmette with w white horse in the paddock. He's a little skittish and needs grooming. I gave him 3 carrots, but he wouldn't take them from my hand. Three hours later they're gone. I guess he decided to eat them.
We cleaned the RV- I did the inside and Daddy did outside. Daddy couldn't finish the outside. Check out the pictures. Talk about really dirty. The dirt just blows all over the place out here. We ate dinner at Montana Ribs and Chop House- excellent. We ordered ahi tuna as an appetizer; they charged us entree price- 18.00 but it was really good. Not as good as yours Jon, but edible. As entrees we had spinach and cream cheese stuffed pork chops and NY strip steak. The baked potato was the size of a cantaloupe! They must grow stuff big out here. We drank a bottle of Wild Horse Merlot- excellent. We need to find that one at the store.
Tomorrow we will scope out the things to do here.
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