DRIVING DAYS TO IDAHO

I forgot to mention that our camp leader at Wilson Lake, KS ended the outing a day early due to the heat (107+), and high winds the night before. At least five women went home early, several of us had stayed in motels, and a couple canceled from coming at all.. It was too “brutal” to continue the outing, Lori said.

When the days are full of driving, there is not much that happens to blog about. Our highlight on our first day on the road was meeting Kaitlyn & Larry. We had stopped at the city park in the small town of Meeteetse Wyoming and came upon Kaitlyn walking her lamb, Larry, around the park on a leash. Larry was such a sweet lamb (sheep perhaps) and came right over to the van to say hello. What a treat it was to meet these two.

Driving along the Montana highways, there are many beautiful views. We took them all in and stopped only once for a couple of roadside photos. These look very similar but are different angles of hills and threatening sky.

Susan was having her yen for … you guessed it… pizza. We stopped in the busy tourist town of Red Lodge MT. There is a theme of bicycling that I could not pass up: one hanging from the ceiling; one attached to the wall; one as a side/serving table. At least one of the photos is a bit out of focus but I was rushing due to being in the dining room with a few diners.

One more stop with a little something to write about was Livingston Montana. We walked a bit in the park near the Railroad Depot. This tree looked very different to both of us and Susan looked it up on her “tree app” (of course she has one). The only thing it could tell us is that it is a ‘Dicot’ which is a family of many trees, but could not identify it specifically from the photo we had.

Interesting, and different bark.

The leaves…

We went inside the Depot, used the facilities and took a couple of pics, then chatted with the woman at the desk about our travels, and Sisters on the Fly. She was quite interested and said she will look up their website for more info.

Outside the station, Susan tried to take a selfie of us. It could maybe be mistaken for a Picasso (I am at the top right corner, Susan is at the bottom left.) When a nice gentleman saw our struggle, he stopped walking his dog and came over to offer to take a photo of us. Thankfully!

Across the street from the Depot is a fly & bike shop (Dan Baily’s) that we could not possibly pass by without looking!

Well, not only did we look — we bought. I found a pair of winter knee high socks, Susan found a sun block shirt.

We are now in Thompson Falls, in a motel escaping heat again, and will arrive at our next SOTF outing in Sandpoint Idaho tomorrow early afternoon.