I meant to spend the evening by the beach, but the Airstream had other ideas.
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Little Yellowstone
Before leaving North Dakota, I followed a scenic drive down to the Fort Ransom and “Little Yellowstone” area. This started with another grain elevator in Kathryn. And provided stops at old Lutheran churches. In North Dakota you can’t really avoid Lutheran churches. Or golden fields of hay. Or Vikings, for that matter. They seem to …
Jamestown, ND
Having veered from HW-2 due to its four-lane nature, I ventured down to Jamestown, birthplace of Louis L’amour. On the way, I passed this old pullman car. Pullman cars were made famous by Lincoln’s funeral train; this particular car was transported with great effort, I’m told, something involving getting stuck in one of the ubiquitous …
North Dakota and a Town called Towner
HW-2 becomes disappointing quite quickly in North Dakota, as it has been widened to four lanes and bypasses almost all of the nearby communities — some historically, some not. If you’re camping in North Dakota, be sure to pick a site well back from any dirt roads, regardless of the posted speed limit. North Dakotans …
Eastern Montana
Heading down out of Glacier National Park, you enter the rolling prairies of Eastern Montana. Cut Bank, a town so-named for the local river that, well, cuts through the rather prominent bank, has little to otherwise recommend it. There is one “diner and lounge” that lets you wash down your roadside burger with a surprisingly decent selection …
Glacier National Park
On the advice of the ranger I met at the actual Columbia Falls farmers market—The Columbia Falls Community Market, so named, I presume, because this is the farmers market the community actually attends—I drove to Polebridge through Glacier National Park. Although a longer route, it was, he said, a much nicer road, and worth it …
Columbia Falls; or, The case of two farmers’ markets
Columbia Falls started out as a huge disappointment. The RV park was so tight that my sewer outlet was placed directly behind my neighbors’ picnic table, which hardly seems sanitary, and this turned out to be true of my neighbors on the other side as well. I, being polite, did not set up my sewer …
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Entering Montana
On leaving Idaho you are greeted by a sign riddled with bullet holes. The sign sits next to a rundown casino on the Idaho side, so I suspect the patrons were expressing their feelings towards Montana. On the other hand, maybe the sign serves a dual purpose, and the denizens of Montana, on re-entering their …
The Museum in Bonners Ferry, ID
The museum in Bonners Ferry is worth the $2 it takes to visit. It’s not so much a museum as a hodgepodge collection of local antiques and not-so-antique objects, much what you might expect to find at a combination antique/pawn shop, if such a thing were to exist. It’s filled with creepy dolls dressed up …
Bonners Ferry, ID
The village center has some nice public spaces, and a good bookstore, which is next to a placed called ‘Woody’s Gun & Pawn LLC”. At the old brick post office, which for some reason the US Government hasn’t attempted to sell yet, I found myself engaged in an apocalyptic discussion with two women, one of whom was very …