What Happened to the Time?

When the kids left from Bozeman, WY we headed to 7th Ranch and RV park in Little Big Horn area.  We stayed there for a few days and enjoyed Little Big Horn National Monument and celebrated our 33rd Wedding Anniversary.  It was a very interesting area to visit.  When we left, I filled up with fuel and 10 miles down the road, the check engine light came on.  I assumed it was due to poor fuel, but later found out that was not the case.  I stopped and checked to see that the fuel cap was on correctly, and found that it was.  The next area we stopped at, I added 5 bottles of "Heat" to get rid of any water in the fuel.  That did not work either.  So we continued on.

We left the Little Big Horn area and headed to Scully Creek State Park in Medora, ND for the 4th of July week end.  We did not have hook ups there, but the campsites were spacious and the generator worked great.

We left Medora, ND and headed to Jamestown RV Park in Jamestown, ND.  We enjoyed our short stay there and then headed to Forest Hills Golf and RV Resort in Detroit Lakes, MN.  This was a very nice private resort for the Golf Club members.  We were able to get in there with RPI.  

When we left Detroit Lakes, we headed to Sioux Falls, SD.  We stayed at Tower Camp Ground and found it to be a nice campground.  

After our week at Tower Campground, we were headed to our friends, Bill and Donna Nixon, but we thought we should get our check engine light checked out to ensure it was not to serious.  We were wrong!  We spent 5 days at the Cummins Sales and Service center in Sioux Falls, SD.  It turned out that our belt had shreaded down to 4 ribs and what was gone had shreaded several electrical pieces and took out the electrical fan clutch.  $2500+ later, we headed to our friends house.  To make a long story short, they had to order parts and the last part took longer than expected to come in.

We finally left Sioux Falls and headed to Bill and Donna's in Springfield, SD.  We had a GREAT visit with them.  We can not thank them enough for the hospitality they extended to us.  Debby and I both look forward to the next time we can get up in this area and visit with them again.  Bill is very talented with wood work and make me a neat call sign plaque.

We also attended the local ham club bar b que with them and had a really good time.  Once again, we REALLY enjoyed our visit with them.

We left their place and went to York Campground in York, ND.  We only stayed one night there and yesterday we drove to McPherson RV Park in McPherson, KS.  We got here yesterday afternoon and the owner is a real nice guy who have not had the campground very long.  The sites are level, fresh rock has been laid and they have a VERY nice club house.  It is a small campground, but they will do well here I suspect, due to their attitude.  

Today Debby and I drove to Wichata and went to the commissary.  We will be staying here until Monday when we will continue our trek to Livingston, TX to volunteer at C.A.R.E.  We will spend 3 nights in OK and then head into TX.

I will try to do better about updating the blog.  We had so much going on that I just lost track of time. Y'all travel safe and I'll type more later.

Visit With The Kids

We left Bothell, WA and headed to Sunrise RV Park in Bozeman, MT.  We traveled each day for 5 days, about 190 mile per day.  I'm not used to that, so I was pretty tired when we got to Bozeman.  We got there and rested the next day.  The following day we traveled to West Yellowstone, MT at Buffalo Crossings RV Park.  This was a really nice park.  No amenities, but right outside of Yellowstone National Park East Entrance.  That was the 8th of June.  The next day we drove back up to Bozeman an picked up the kids.  It was really nice to see them.  We drove back down to West Yellowstone and rested the next day.

We spent the next 1 1/2 weeks exploring Yellowstone National Park.  There is just to much to tell.  We entered the park each day.  Visited with our friends Bob and Sue Guthrie at the north entrance to the park, spent a day in Cody and explored the musieun there.  We have had a great timel.   I will share just some of the pictures of Yellowstone and Cody.

These were from the Grizzly and Wolf Discovery.  A nice experience.

While in West Yellowstone, we experienced much more weather than we wanted to.  We had hard rain with HIGH winds, snow and even experienced a 4.5 magnitude earth quake.  Luckily it did not last long.

we also visited Jackson Hole, WY and went through the Tetons.  How beautiful.  

We finally headed back up to Bozeman, MT and are once again, at Sunrise RV Park.  Yesterday we toured the Museum of the Rockies.  What a great exhibit of dinosoars and the history of the area.

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So we have had a fun visit with the kids.  We took them to the airport this morning and they are currently flying home.  We will next be headed east and look forward to visiting with Bill and Donna when we get to their house in southeastern South Dakota.  

Y'all have a great time, and I'll type again later.

After Cruise Update

Well, we went to NAS Fallon, NV to their RV Park.  What a disappointment.  $35 per night and it was ok, but, in my mind, not worth the money, although the local RV parks were even a little higher.  The exchange was nothing to brag about, very small, as was the commissary.  Not many improvements since I was there when the filmed Top Gun.  We will probably not go back there, as it is really not on the way to anywhere.

We left NAS Fallon on May 2 and headed for Beale AFB which has a much nicer Fam Camp.  It is the old mobile home park.  They did not make all of the old mobile home park the Fam Camp, so they have about 48 more sites they could make.  We enjoyed our stay there, except we could not get all of the satellites from DISH, so we could not get the local channels, so on the programs we really wanted to see the season ending episodes, we went to the club house.  When we got there, there was a man in there who was trying to use the TV, but when we walked in, he said there is the remote and he left.  He had the TV system ALL SCREWED up.  Debby and I got it to work, but we had to read the directions.  We did go out into town, but did not do much.  Like NAS Fallon and Nellis AFB, construction at the gate made it difficult.

This is the first place we would see Rolls Royces.  This guy had 2.

Next we went to Yreka RV Park in Yreka, CA.  We spent a couple of days here, but did not do much looking around.

We next headed to Rice Hill RV Park in Oakland, OR.  Another nice park that we only spent a couple of days.  Oregon seems to like rain, as we has rain (mostly light) every day we were in Oregon.

Next we headed to 99 RV Park.  It is named that because it is on Hwy 99.  in Vancover, WA.  This has a lot of long term residents in it.  Fairly nice campground with pull thru's, but I had to disconnect to get into the site anyway as the turn into the site was Way to sharp.  As we were going to disconnect anyway, it was not a big deal.  We did some site seeing while there and went to the Oregon coast to see the Pacific surf pound the rocks.

We next headed to Ft. Lewis Fam Camp on Joint Military Base Lewis/McChord.  They advertise as "big rig friendly", and the sites are, but to get to those sites is NOT.  Very sharp turns that was difficult to get around even without our car hooked up.  Heavy trees made for NO satellite, but, they offer cable, with a cable box.  No charge for that.  We were able to see Erain Garcia, Vic and Barb's daughter while we were there and she was nice enough to spend a lot of time with us.  We got to visit with here every day we were there.  We got so see her daughter and meet her husband.  It was a really nice visit.  The Tacoma area was really nice.

We next headed to Lake Pleasant RV Park in Bothell, WA to stay for a couple of days before the Alaskan Cruise.  Very nice park, as it should be for $44 per night.  ALWAY full as they offer storage with 115 v power for $3 per night  We stored our home here while on the cruise.

Next we put the house in storage and went on the Alaskan Cruise on Explorer of the Seas.  A beautiful luxury liner. This was Debby and my first cruise (the naval cruises do not count, nor does the one day gambling cruise nor dinner cruises).  We enjoyed it VERY MUCH and look forward to our next cruise.  We visited Juneau, Skagway, Tracy Ann Fjord and Victoria, BC.  I have LOTS of pictures, but just do not have the data available to up load them all.  here are just a couple.

We are now back at Lake Pleasant RV Park in Bothell, WA.  Headed toward Yellowstone and pick up the kids.  A big thank you goes out to Rick and Louise for allowing us to join them on the "Singing Sams" Cruise.  We really had a GREAT TIME!   Leaving tomorrow and will pick  up the kids on the 9th when they fly into Bozman.   We will be making 4 one night stops on the way to West Yellowstone.  Going to go about 180 mile per day.  

Y'all stay safe and I will type more later.