Yaquina, OR

 We made it to our one month stay at Sawyer's Landing RV Park and Marina on the Yaquina River just four miles up the river from Newport, OR. We have a great site backed up to the river. We can watch the baby seals swimming around right in front of the RV. So far the weather has been great in the low 70's to the mid 60's and sunny.

Katie loves this site too. Just laying out in the warm sun.

One of the baby seals. So cute but they are kind of hated here. The locals say they eat too many salmon. 

We got the motorhome washed in a really nice park in Mountain Home, ID. It's kind of hard to find someone to come and wash the RV, but we got a good wash guy to come and do it. When we get back to Fortuna Foothills we will get our regular guys to wash and wax it.

It looks like no one is sailing this boat!

This was our site in Mountain Home RV Park right after the wash job. We liked this park. Next time we'll stay longer. It had a huge site and a nice dog park Katie liked. She met a lot of dog friends. 

We added a couple of Blink cameras that mount with suction cups on the side of the RV and one on the inside to keep an eye on Katie.

They are working pretty good so far.

And this is what she does when we're gone! You can talk to her from the camera, but she really didn't care too much.

Peggy spotted a hot air balloon and got a good picture of it.

We have had some great sweet corn a couple of times. So good.

But last night we had meatball subs. I think they were the BEST meatballs I've ever made.

Our Bartender in Pre-Funk Tap house in Nampa, ID. I forgot her name but she has great painted nails.

 

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The queen!

Live Happy and Always Go Big.

 

   

ARCO!

 We are in Arco, ID at Mountain View RV Park. I love this park. We have a huge, pull thru site. The best thing is, in the office they have a BBQ restaurant that makes THE best BBQ ribs! We were here last year and had the ribs, so we had to come back for more. I have had the ribs twice this week.

Our Bartender, Josie here in the park.

You can rent a atv here in the park.

Pick a helmet and away you go!

The drive here was so beautiful. Two lane road all the way down State Rd 93.

We stopped in Hamilton, MT and stayed at Anglers Roost RV Park right on the Bitterroot River. A ton of drift fishermen launching every morning.

Here's Katie and I down at the boat launch by the fish totem pole.

They had the Bitter Root Brewery. The beer was good and the food was killer. We had a Gyro. We have a hard time finding Greek food on our travels.

This is kind of a funny thing in Montana; in a brewery they can only serve you 48 oz of beer a day and they close at 8pm. So they check off the beer every time they bring you one. That is just weird.

Then we moved to Challis, Mt. stayed at Round Valley RV Park. Really nice park with big sites. But the town is a Zero. We ate at the Challis Roadhouse and the food was good. The other place in town was Bux's Tavern. We went to Bux's to watch the 4 July parade.

Class of 1975 float!

The rodeo queen and the Sheriff.

Smokey the Bear on the forest service truck. Good old small town parade!

I found the back way in. It was a good old, dumpy bar full of locals. We do find some really cool places sometimes.

One of the only bad things in Montana is that you can smoke in the bars.

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Katie had a new friend camping right next to us, Winnie.

Live Happy and Always Go Big.

 

Better Weather

 We've moved a couple of times. We are now in Hamilton, MT at Angler's Roost RV park. It's an OK park but it's pretty close to the main highway, so it gets a lot of road noise and it's a little pricey at $75 a night.

We stayed a week in Anaconda, Mt. at the Copper Court RV Park, a fairly new park. It's close to Butte, MT. So we made a couple of trips to Butte. We really like Butte but it doesn't have a good RV park. We went to the Butte Brewery and then had lunch at O'Donnell's Irish Pub.

We met John (he recommended O'Donnell's) in the Butte Brewery. He's moving to Alaska to become a state trooper. I think he's crazy. It's too cold up there.

The owners of O'Donnell's are from Ireland. They had a good selection of Irish Beer. Peggy had the Shepherd's Pie and I had a good Reuben sandwich. 

Had to have a Smithwick's from the tap. 

Butte is full of mines. This is the Mile high, Mile deep mine.

Before we got here, we stopped in ST. Regis, MT at the Nugget RV park. Nice park but it was pricey too. ST. Regis has nothing in it. One bar, The Dog House. It's just a gas stop town on I-90. We met up with one of my golf buddies, Tim. We had lunch with him at Quinn's Hot Springs Resort.

The food was good and the Beer was cold.

The hot springs come right out of the mountain. We forgot to bring our suits to get in the pools. But it looked really nice.

Not far from Quinn's was Clark Fork Meat company, They make some really good Polish Dogs. So I got a couple of packs.

It rained a lot in ST. Regis. Here, I'm making a rain Pizza. It started to rain right after I put it on the Big Green Egg.

But it turned out OK. My new double indirect cooking setup. This stops from burning the bottom of the pizza.

We had to get a new tire pressure monitor. Our old one was going nuts sometimes, after all, it was 10 years old. This one is working well so far.

 

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Katie, just being cute. She loves to get up on the picnic table.

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Still Cold

 We are in Ennis, Montana at Ennis RV Park. We've been here before. The park is ok but they're not taking very good care of it. We have a lot of weeds in and around our lot. The weather has not been very good; pretty cold. We did have two nice days in a row.

Our site. There's still snow on the mountains.

They have chickens here in the park so you can get fresh eggs for five bucks a dozen. 

Katie loves the chickens too.

We went down to the Madison River to watch the drift fishermen go by. The Madison River comes out of the Yellowstone N.P. It flows pretty fast. They fish for Trout.

Good spot to watch them go by right next to the boat launch.

This looks like an Osprey hunting by the river.

This tag is on the picnic tables here. We haven't seen any bears yet.

We took Katie to the brewery in town. They have a nice outside area that's dog friendly. The Burnt Tree Brewery. The beer is pretty good and they have killer pizza too.

Not far away is the historic town of Virgina City. It's an old mining town that we've been to before. This is a spooky looking old house just outside of town.

This is the bar at the Pioneer Bar in Virginia City. They say that there is a bar in Anaconda that looks just like this one. Anaconda is our next stop, so we'll see.

We took a little road trip to Pony, Montana to stop at the Pony Bar. It's the only thing in the town, it's that small. The bartender told us they used the old school house in the TV series 1923. Oh, Peggy beat me at the bumper pool table.

And of course I had to fix another thing on the RV. New drawer slide. I hate doing drawer slides.

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We have a new Pope!

Live Happy and Always Go Big.

 

Pretty Cold

 We are in Sheridan, WY. One of our favorite towns. We are staying at Peter D's RV Park we have been here a couple of other times.

Our site at Peter D's. We were the first ones to check in this year. He opened on May 1st. It's been pretty cold and a lot of rain the past two days. The high was 46 on Tuesday. 

Before we left Spearfish we took a ride thru the Spearfish Canyon. We got some good pictures of the Mountain Goats in the canyon.

 They were right on the road next to a nice stream. You couldn't miss them.

Nice waterfall on the drive.

We took a tour of the High Plains Western Heritage Center. Saw a lot of old western stuff, like the hearse from the old west. It's pretty cool, but I don't need a ride in it yet.

  

They had this 17 foot tall paper mache statue of Tennessee Vaughn memorial on a horse.

Here we are in one of our favorite bars, The World Famous Mint Bar. It opened in 1907, a little before my time. Lots of cool stuff in it.

We are moving tomorrow on our way to Ennis, MT.

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Peggy and I way back in the day. Having some good boating fun with the 22' Donzi. That was a fun boat.

Live Happy and Always Go Big.