Yesterday's Photos and Today's Adventures

I'm posting early today as we have a great wifi signal and I want to upload photos before this evening when everyone is using it.  

Our lunch place yesterday

View of Absaroka Mountains from our site

View from the walking trail along the river

Yesterday's campground

When I quit writing yesterday we were having a hellacious hailstorm.  It finally moved on and the evening was cool and damp.  I turned on the fireplace/heater and used the remote to set a temperature and it ran for a while and then shut off.  I assumed it was because it had reached temperature.  Later, when it got chilly again, I tried to turn it on.  We got an error code that said the thing was overheated.  The code kept blinking on and off as did the "fire."  After a while it quit.  Rog pulled the unit out and unplugged it thinking it just needed a "reboot." It didn't work when we plugged it back in.  Now we get the "fire" blinking five times and then it stops when we turn the power on.  Not sure what I did, but it is messed up.   I've emailed the maker's support line, but have not heard anything. Looks like we might have to take it in to a dealer as it isn't something Mr. Fix-it can do anything else with - unfortunately.  

Rog had to re-seal the tracks for the shower door onto the shower stall.  We were getting water on the floor.  He pealed off the old stuff and dried it out underneath and resealed it. Haven't had a shower since, so don't know if it fixed the issue. Hoping so.

We awoke around 1:30 this morning to sounds of another storm passing through.  It lasted about an hour.  The storms left snow on the mountains and it was just lovely this morning.  Quite cool, but beautiful.  

A guy who has the same model RV, but a year older, stopped this morning to talk and compare notes.  He's had some real issues with his unit but still thinks it's a good RV design-wise. The good thing about comparing notes is now Roger can be on the look out for similar problems and maybe do preventative measures if need be.  

We had some rough road today and a few more things found themselves on the floor.  The weirdest was that the freezer door flew open and all ice cube trays fell out.  Lots of water and ice to clean up but no damage done to anything else.  

We stopped at Wheat Montana Bakery and Deli in Three Forks and picked up sandwiches for lunch down the road.  We stopped there on our trip last summer and the food is very good.  The cinnamon rolls are the size of a dinner plate!  Didn't get one, but they sure looked yummy.  Maybe I should have.  We could have eaten from it for several days!

We got in earlier than expected as we took a short cut route this afternoon.  (I call it a hypotenuse route between two interstates.)  It cut off over an hour of travel time and it was a lovely drive through a river valley.  Lots of ranches and farms and spots along the river to fly fish.  Every town has a fly shop and an outfitters to give the angler the best experience.  The road was two lane but good and we only had about half a dozen cars stuck behind us because they couldn't pass the slow pokes. 

We are in Dillon, MT for just one night.  It's a KOA - a very nice KOA.  Lots of grass, a river boundary by the tent sites, and lots of shade.  It's raining right now and 69 degrees, but it was quite nice when we pulled in.  (Roger wants to know if it rains every afternoon in Montana.  I don't think it did last summer but we were here in August not June.)  

It looks like tomorrow we will start finding the heat. The forecast for home on our arrival date is currently 100 degrees. I hope the air conditioner works better than the little fireplace! At least we are getting to test all the systems on our way home! With any luck we won't have to spend too much time and effort getting things fixed before we head to Arizona for the winter.