Like William Clark and Sacagawea we followed the Yellowstone River all day today. At one point I saw someone in a canoe - maybe they are still out there? I think it probably took them longer to go the same distance we did today, though. It was a long day for us - 278 miles. We surpassed 6,000 miles on the trip-o-meter today. Except for going through Billings, the scenery was wonderful. (As for Alice's comment on yesterday's post - Yes, it is beautiful country. I was just too tired to appreciate it!)
We were up at the crack of dawn again this morning. We've got to find something to block that darn sun from coming in the windows so early. The new window blinds are not black out shades or even close to it. If this keeps up we will both be zombies from lack of sleep.
We found the snow covered mountains this afternoon as we left Billings, MT going west. Such a welcome sight. It's been forever since we've seen any and we feel like we are almost home. Maggie's not so sure she likes being back in the West, though. Stickery dry grass at all her pee stops instead of the lush green grass she's been used to for the last two months. Again today we could not take her into the rest area where the real grass was but to the outer edges where the yucky stuff grows. Such discrimination!
Picking a campground/RV park is a crapshoot at best. There is some info out there on the web about some of them and I do research before I pick a spot, but sometimes the info isn't truthful and is probably written by the owners. As we got closer to our destination tonight I started getting nervous, as I always do, about what we will find. Because of it's location I expected a rustic campground in a pine forest. No. We hit the jackpot today like we did in Houghton, MI.
We are at Yellowstone's Edge RV Park about 35 miles north of Yellowstone Nat'l Park and about 20 miles south of I-94 at Livingston, MT. The park sits right on the river, is clean and modern and the views of the river and mountains are tremendous. There is grass between the sites and a long grassy area along the river's edge for the dogs that has benches for the people. We were assigned a site where our back window overlooks the river with the mountains in the background. (Now all I need to do is wash it after that rain and road dirt the other day messed it up.) I'm so glad we have booked two nights as tomorrow is our day of rest after three days on the road. It will be so relaxing and the setting is spectacular. It's a bit cool - around 70 - and we did have a thunderstorm roll through here about dinner time but the sun is shining right now (7:30MT).
Unfortunately the WIFI signal here is awful and I haven't been able to upload any pictures of the RV Park or the views. That one of the river above took forever to come in and now it won't let me import any more. I'll see if I can go up to the office tomorrow and get a stronger signal and load some photos. We are in such a lovely place and I want to share.
No issues with the RV today! Haven't discovered anything new, either.
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