Montana

We have been off the grid the past couple of days.  We are in Montana.  It is one of our favorite states.  There are so many places to camp in the woods here.  There are also many beautiful things to see along the way like the Kootenai Falls between Troy and Libby on Rt 2.

Kootenai Falls

Kootenai Rapids

We drove down a one lane dirt forest service road day before yesterday to find a remote campsite.  We went five miles before we could even find a place where we could turn around.  That spot turned out to be the campsite we had been looking for.

Fisher Creek

We were in the heart of grizzly country.  We were camped next to Fisher Creek.  At dusk we hoped to see a bear come down to the waters edge.  But that didn't happen.

Wild Flowers at our creek campsite.

We have been taking it real easy giving Darlie time to regain her strength.  Yesterday we drove over to Hungry Horse Reservoir near Glacier NP.  We had wanted to camp there on one of our other trips to Glacier but didn't take the time to do it.  The forest service park was nearly full.  We had to take a site back away from the water.  That was disappointing.  Part of the campgrounds are shut down this summer because of road improvements that are being made.  Maybe we will go back another year and try again.

Today we decided it was time to start for home.  We were 3000 miles from there this morning.  I managed to knock 400 miles off that today.  We  had to make several stops to look at various things along the way.  We also had a couple in another Winnebago Brave pull alongside and want to stop and chat.  We found a wide spot overlooking Polson Lake.

Our new found friends were from Illinios.  They have been traveling in their Brave for years.  Theirs was a 1995 and it looked brand new.  He said they keep it in an airplane hanger.  He waxes it once a year and really babys it.  They have driven it to Alaska two times and they have visited every state and province of Canada.  They were very interesting people.  We thanked them for flagging us down for a chat.  We always meet the nicest people in a motor home.

Our plan is to drive through Yellowstone and Tetons again on our way back.  We are camped in the most beautiful spot along Rt 89 just 25 miles north of Yellowstone.  We always look for scenic places to spend the night.  You  look at the photos and you decide if we found a scenic place to camp tonight. The best part of it though is it is free.  It is a fishing access site along the river.  We have the place all to ourselves.  I take that back.  The misquitoes are about as heavy as we have seen anywhere.  I think they eat Deet for kdinner too.

Our campsite tonight on the Yellowstone River

As the sunset, the golden late summer grass on the mountain sides gave the appearance of a velvet carpet.  Words or photos can't fully capture how beautiful it really is.

Sunset on our campsite