granddaughter coraline

granddaughter coraline

grandson mason

grandson mason

grandson jaxson

grandson jaxson

Monday, September 9, 2019

01-05SEP19 - Sultan, WA, & Misc (haugan, mt; bozeman, mt; miles city, mt; & minot, nd)


Sunday, 01SEP, continue our prepping of the RV started last month for our upcoming trip.  That evening was the annual end of summer BBQ & potluck for the “neighborhood” located on our area of Reiner Road.  Previous ones were at the Dankers’, this year was at the MacDicken’s.  As always an excellent time with neighbors you see infrequently through the year. See below internet link for last year’s event.








One interesting occurrence was when someone showed pics on their cell phone of a young adult bear wandering thru the area for last couple of days; then another neighbor showed cell phone pics of coyotes.  So then Dan had to show our pics of the bobcat we sited yesterday. (see our previous BLOG for the pics)

Monday AM we got a little later start on our RV trip to the east coast mainly because of difficulty get our new car shield (aka bra) properly attached to rhe Toad.  Thankfully we were headed east on I-90 on a Labor Day MondayJ!  The westbound traffic going back to Seattle was back up for miles & miles!!!  In Idaho we try to stay at two RV parks w/no joy.  We then decided to dry camp at Lincoln Silver Dollar in Haugan, MT.  Followers of our BLOG know it is a Ryan family tradition to stop at this tourist spot/trap whenever we are on I-90 (see below BLOGs).  But this time we got one of their free RV spots w/electrical hook-upsJ  415 miles driven.





Tuesday AM we get later start than planned.  Uneventful drive until engine low water alarm goes off.  Engine temp starts rising just as we are in middle of steep climb (naturally).  We complete the climb & pull into parking area – engine temp is still ok.  We add one gallon of mixed antifreeze & couple of quarts of distilled water.  Unfortunately thanks to Tiffin’s lousy design for adding water to the radiator; we spill some, mostly on Corrie.  Hour latter we pull into RV park we stayed at before in Bozeman, MT, Corrie heads to showers.  296 miles driven.

Wednesday finally get started at a normal time.  Stay at KOA in Miles City, MT, record heat!!!  284 miles driven.

Thursday, 05SEP, normal start – heat not so bad.  We drive thru NW North Dakota, oil field truck traffic not as bad as our last visit; the oil fracking boom has definitely slowed down.  Since our last drive thru this part of North Dakota you can now see many, many, improvements because of the boom – especially in the roads.  But ND-23 between Sanish & New Town is to be avoided.  We stay outside Minot, ND; tomorrow Sprucewoods, MB.  307 miles driven.

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