Monday, October 13, 2008

Greetings from Montana

Traffic jam in Montana
Our old Billings homestead

Kristin's favorite place


Kristin's second most favorite place


Kristin's school


Put South Dakota in the rear view mirror this morning. Left the RV park about 8:30 a.m., and crossed into Wyoming about 9:30 a.m.
Highway was bare and dry all the way to Billings with temperatures in the upper 30's to low 40's. Arrived at the RV park about 4:15 p.m. Got the motorhome set up, and went to look at the house where we lived in 94/95. Amazingly not much has changed. Took pictures of the old house, and kids schools. Then went to the grocery store for dinner items.
Weather looks good to move on tomorrow with temperatures along the route in the 40's & 50's.
With a little luck we will not see any more snow/ice the rest of the way home.
(and no more turkeys!!) Will continue from the Missoula area tomorrow.
Happy Trails....................................Ernie

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This was a travel day for us, so spent a lot of the time looking at the landscape of northeast Wyoming and southern Montana. I've always enjoyed the lay of the land in this part of the country. This is the land where the deer and the antelope play, and we saw hundreds of antelope in herds right off the highway. I have never seen so many antelope together; they blend in to the land really well so it's hard to see them. This time of the year there's hardly any traffic on the road, esp. here in Montana. Arrived in Billings and they had 13 inches of snow the other day. A lot of the trees in the area were damaged due to the heavy snow. Spent about a half hour revisiting the Billings area; it's a small city, so it doesn't take very long to cover. I'm hoping the roads will be as clear tomorrow as they were today. - Joyce

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Lisa Petrarca said...

Wow...snow already...we are freezing in 65 degree weather, spoiled Californians.

Ron and Diane said...

Your "Traffice Jam in Montana" picture looks like something on a postcard (A beautiful place to VISIT). Looks like smooooth sailing ahead.

Joyce, Ernie keeps mentioning grocery stores, is that slave driver making you cook? We should have gotten Homers number. I think we should nominate you for sainthood, I'm afraid I couldn't have lasted this long in such close quarters. I probably would have already killed Ron.

Ernie, speaking of Ron, we are burning his damn Dodgers hat, stupid thing don't work. Keep checking that rearview mirror to make sure those turkeys didn't follow you......Diane