August 20-21, 2009 Travel on Highway 2 in Northern Montana
We left Spokane and started our trip east. We only had about 150 miles or so to cover, but would go through a small section of Idaho and into Montana. It was a very nice drive, beautiful landscape, more mountainous, pine/cedar trees, beginning to feel different. We stopped for the night in the small town of Troy, Montana – population 957 or so; a nice neat small community, probably not as exciting as it must have been many years ago when our friend Marianne Robison grew up there. We drove the length of the town taking in Troy High School and a few other assorted businesses. We drank, dined and gambled – as the menu said we would, at the Silver Spurs Restaurant, this was followed with Karen getting bitten by her ever favorite yellow jacket buddies (OUCH! 3rd sting this summer) and a nice drive and walk through the Ross Creek Cedar area. This was a very cool and shady trail in amongst many very big and tall red cedars upwards of 500 years and older. We returned to camp ready for tomorrows drive into Glacier.
Friday morning we arose and headed east. We stopped and walked the beautiful trail down to Kootenai Falls and then hiked over to the 100’ long Swinging Bridge on the Kootenai River. It was a beautiful beginning to a not so wonderful day.
Can you say “RV HELL!” ? What happens next is not to be repeated or told to any impressionable youngsters. We started by having an electricity problem fixed in Kalispell, Montana, no cost, so far so good, But wait it does not last. We drive on into Glacier, struggle a bit to find a campground and finally decide on a KOA just outside of West Glacier. They assigning us a site, we dropped our “little toad – the Prius” and head off the dreaded space #62. Let’s just say that there are trees that bare us some evil, jumping out and smacking us twice, crunching in two of our stainless steel bay doors. Oh the air was blue with language not often heard by the calm mild manned MoHo driver. We finally wiggle out of our fix and go back to the office asking for a site that would actually fit our 37’ coach. Off to sit #32. We struggle in and get set up, appraise the damage and feel quite awful. Of course we felt awful, we just dented our MoHo and the “DAMNED A.C.” won’t stay on. The electricity was not working. What the hell? We had just gotten it fixed and it still isn’t working. It is hot, and we are cranky…….
You get the picture I am sure. Long story short (long night) we finally figured out that the outlet in the space wasn’t working and fried up our extension cord and with a new cord stretched over to another sight we had air!!! O.M.G. What a day.