2069 miles!!!

Don wrote this blog:  Tuesday evening.  We got home about 4:30 pm.  It really rained last night in Salmon but was clear today.  We did not know so we put on rain gear.  It was cool but comfortable.  We took off our rain gear in Challis and our coats later on.  Had a great trip and saw lots of beautiful country.  Total milaeage was 2069 miles.  It was 1025 coming through Salmon.  Closer by 19 miles but slower.

Just want to mention the nice motel in Salmon.  It is on the south side of town and is called Sacajawea Inn.  Very clean and comfortable.  It is run by a husband and wife and would recommend it to anyone travelling that way.

Here are some pictures:  First one is Larry standing by his rig, second is the rig and the third is one of many drilling rigs that are drilling all over the area.  It is called the Bakken oil field and runs over into Montana, up into Canada and North Dakota and maybe even further south.

Big rig that Larry drives



drilling rig

Alfreda and mural in motel room in Salmon.  We really enjoyed the room.

I wish I would have had Larry stop in Canada and get some pictures of the coal fields but could not find a place to stop.

We really had a wonderful trip and glad that we got to see Larry for a brief time.  Alfreda was a trooper and endured the rain and the cold as well as the heat with no complaining.

Sunday worship

Yesterday we went to church with Larry in Williston, they had it in the park with a Bar-B-Q to follow, it was really a great worship service.  then we went back to larry's & packed up & left about 2, we had a really nice time visiting & sight seeing with him, a little bitty tear let me down as we drove off & waved.  We had a good ride in the afternoon, not too hot but we did run into a dickens of a rain & wind storm, but we were through it in a little while & got dried out.  We stayed in Lewistown at a nice motel.  Paco told me to gas up at every gas station we came to so I did.  Left this morning and ate breakfast at Big Timber.  Just before we got into Butte we got into another rain storm.  Sat out some of it under a bridge.  When it let up we drove to Wisdom, in the Big Hole country and had pie and ice cream.  It was cool today and we stopped before we hit Idaho and put on our heavy coats under our rain gear.  Came down Hwy 93 to Salmon.  Got a nice little motel room on the south side of town and then rode back down town to a Bistro for dinner.

Today we saw buffalo, deer, coyotes, elk, antelope, guess that is all.  Here is a picture of the pie we ate in Wisdom.