MONDAY, SEPT 23

MONDAY, SEPT 23:

     Karen made us a lovely breakfast – blueberry scones, eggs scrambled with fresh tomatoes & spinach, bacon, toast.  Had a great time sharing stories.  We also heard much about Canada’s semi-socialistic system, especially medical care, from Rob’s point of view. 

     They are lovely, gracious people.  We only met them briefly way back in Wrangell, but something clicked with us, and they made us feel that they truly wanted us to visit them in their home (which is absolutely gorgeous – custom-made cherry millwork, stairs, moldings, etc., done by Rob himself.  He’s has the precision of an engineer, but with an artistic eye.  A Renaissance man!)  We mentioned that we might be back up this way again next summer, and they encouraged us to let them know, and they’d show us some neat places that most tourists don’t know about.                                                   

 

 

                                                    Our private RV space for the night :)

     Hit the road about 11:00.  Stopped at Great Falls, Montana . . .  Back in the U.S.A. – and the Lower 48!   Only went a little over 300 miles today, as there were terrible winds most of the way.  Rob & Karen warned us about wind – said that the area we were travelling through had the worst wind of any place on the North American continent.  It’s not unusual at all to see 4 or 5 semi’s overturned on the side of the road when the wind is really up.  As it was today.   I don’t know how today’s wind compares to the maximum they can get, but it was surely bad enough!    We could feel it slamming into the truck at times.  But what concerned us more was that it kept tilting the kayaks on top, and swayed the center bar of the rack holding both the bikes and the kayaks.  Poor Bill had to stop several times to try and secure the kayaks more, and just about got blown away.  The last time, his glasses were blown right off of his face; he was able to catch them, but one lens has fallen out, which he couldn’t find.  Thanks be to God that nothing worse than that happened. 

     So Bill was exhausted by the time we reached Great Falls.  Had initially thought and hoped we’d be further down the road, but it wasn’t to be.  Made stuffed potatoes for dinner.  This place has a great internet connection, so I was able to get everything done on on-line that I needed to tonite, in nearly record time.

      We’re definitely in Big Sky Country!

 

     We plan to get an early start tomorrow and cover more ground than today, if possible.