Saturday morning, 23JUL, spent finally packing RV for after lunch departure. Getting new cargo rack on back of toad was a learning experience. Then on the road to Dan’s cousin Steve & wife Bonnie Kiesel in Kittitas, WA. Last visit with them was almost two years ago; evening was a delicious dinner & reminiscing.
Sunday hot, hot, day; Corrie & Bonnie saddle up the horses in AM got non-strenuous moseying; meanwhile Dan running errands. While driving around Dan re-discovers “Dick & Jane’s Spot” in Ellensburg, WA, last visited 15 years ago! Dinner that night at the Hot Rod Café in Kittitas.
The
Ryan RV Express: 07-11SEP07 - Kittitas, WA (aloha)
Dick : Jane : Spot
(reflectorart.com)
Monday AM on the road after Steve cooks breakfast. After six hours on I-90 we stop at 50,000
Silver Dollar Haugan, MT, (as it is a Ryan family tradition to stop here anytime
driving by). We snag free campsite w/electric
(last visited three years ago); 280 miles driven.
Lincoln Silver Dollar
(50000silverdollar.com)
Tuesday back on I-90 for 360 mile drive to KOA at Big Timber/Greycliff, MT; another older KOA in need of refurbishing, & too close to interstate. In fact office has sign apologizing for noise & offering free earplugs; pool was refreshing😊 While enroute we stop at Exxon in Whitehall, MT for diesel. Station has expanded big time for semis across the street from original/existing Exxon convenience store. Maybe good for semis but terrible arrangement RV’ers. Pumps only take fuel cards from truck operators & not credit or debit cards? So your choices are 1) run across busy state highway, or 2) drive RV & toad across same highway into small station & hope a diesel pump is open!
Wednesday back on I-90 driving east before switching to I-94E to Glendive, MT, 300 miles. Enroute stopped at super wally store in Miles City (last super wally in eastern MT before getting to North Dakota). Once again we are reminded that there are very few RV parks in eastern MT; but luckily Dan finds small newer park in Glendive, MT on the internet. Seven sites all with full hook-ups (even cable hook-up with 12 channels) – no restrooms or laundromat – still two thumbs-up!
Thursday AM, 28JUL, continuing eastward to Corrie’s sister-in-law’s
in Sprucewood, Manitoba, Canada, via Willison, Minot & Rugby, ND, before
heading straight north. As we have
discussed before our present RV has only a 25 gallon fuel tank, meaning one or
two fuel stops each day☹
Which means little time to research each
evening where the cheap diesel is? But
we always find something ten to twenty cents cheaper before the next day’s
drive (and did find $4.89 (vs $5.29) diesel outside Minot😊
The “fracking” oil
activity around Williston very quiet (almost no semi’s on roads). The Canadian government’s ArriveCAN online system
is BS! Site is terrible; & you must
enter data no more than 74 hours in advance, telling them time & place of
crossing the border. Then print out QRC
proof (or take picture if your RV doesn’t have printer). Then when we get to border, agent didn’t even
check! Finally after 420 miles, we
arrive at Elaine’s and great meal after parking RV in the workshop building. Our last visit here was 2019.
The Ryan RV Express: 06-13SEP19 - Sprucewoods, MB
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