Good Morning!
We will be leaving Shelby, MT this morning headed to Canada and the Calgary Stampede with Fantasy RV Tours for 8 days. Then onto meet our caravan in Dawson Creek BC for our Alaska trip. So excited! However, do not know when I'll be able to post again, it might be a while! We do not have a international plan on our phones or Internet, so will not be on any sites, unless we run into free wifi service along the way. I will take LOTS of pictures and post when I can.
Yesterday we went into town to the bank and exchanged a little cash for Canadian money, FYI, their money is really pretty! Lol. The only thing we need to do this morning is fuel the rig up and the car, we were told fuel is more expensive in Canada than here in th U. S. so want to do that here in Shelby.
Tonight we are scheduled to stay at the Riverbend Campground in Okotoks Alberta then into Calgary tomorrow.
See you all when we can!
Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Monday, June 29, 2015
Good morning!
We are in Shelby, MT this morning at the Lewis and Clark RV Park. This is an older RV Park, but that's fine, it suits our needs with 50amp service, water and sewer hook ups. It has Internet, but like everywhere else, it's a little spotty. The campsites are set up a little different, kind of in the round, which makes no sense, but if you saw an overhead picture, you would understand. The great thing about this campground, is, it's only about 30 miles from the Canadian border, where we will be headed to tomorrow. My posts will be nonexistent after tomorrow morning because I don't have a Canadian phone/internet plan. Basically, you won't hear from me until we get into Alaska the middle of July, hopefully.
Yesterday, we traveled from Helena, MT to Shelby, MT in about 3 hours, with a few stops along the way. Mileage was 163 miles
Shelby, MT is a small town, with a lot of railroad tracks! Not much else there there. A grocery store, Albertsons, a couple of banks, a movie theater, gas stations and a really big Subway. Oh and there are a lot of bars/clubs, lol.
Will explore the area a little more today and see what we can see!
We are in Shelby, MT this morning at the Lewis and Clark RV Park. This is an older RV Park, but that's fine, it suits our needs with 50amp service, water and sewer hook ups. It has Internet, but like everywhere else, it's a little spotty. The campsites are set up a little different, kind of in the round, which makes no sense, but if you saw an overhead picture, you would understand. The great thing about this campground, is, it's only about 30 miles from the Canadian border, where we will be headed to tomorrow. My posts will be nonexistent after tomorrow morning because I don't have a Canadian phone/internet plan. Basically, you won't hear from me until we get into Alaska the middle of July, hopefully.
Yesterday, we traveled from Helena, MT to Shelby, MT in about 3 hours, with a few stops along the way. Mileage was 163 miles
Shelby, MT is a small town, with a lot of railroad tracks! Not much else there there. A grocery store, Albertsons, a couple of banks, a movie theater, gas stations and a really big Subway. Oh and there are a lot of bars/clubs, lol.
Will explore the area a little more today and see what we can see!
Sunday, June 28, 2015
It's a beautiful day! I feel LOT'S better! WooHoo!
Yesterday was a fairly long traveling day. We traveled from Hardin, MT to Helena, MT where we are staying at the Lincoln RD RV Park. We had actually stayed at this park last year while on our Lewis and Clark caravan with Fantasy RV and decided that since we were in this area again to stop here and spend the night. It's a nice, clean RV Park where the office staff go out of their way to help you out. There are some back in's but mostly pull through's and no tent camping. Our mileage yesterday was 290 miles in about 6 hours.
We stopped for lunch at the Wheat Montana Farms and Bakery. All I can say is if you get in this area, please stop and check it out! The food is great, and they sell all sorts of different breads, mixes, jellies, etc. I bought a Honey Walnut cinnamon roll that would have fed 3 people it was so big. Just a really neat place to stop and again, we had stopped there last year on our caravan with Fantasy RV and just had to stop again.
We went through 6 miles of road work on RT 287. This is mentioned because they actually tear up the whole road and you drive on the dirt/gravel through the whole 6 miles. In a motor home, that gets a little bumpy!
That's it for today, see you tomorrow!
Yesterday was a fairly long traveling day. We traveled from Hardin, MT to Helena, MT where we are staying at the Lincoln RD RV Park. We had actually stayed at this park last year while on our Lewis and Clark caravan with Fantasy RV and decided that since we were in this area again to stop here and spend the night. It's a nice, clean RV Park where the office staff go out of their way to help you out. There are some back in's but mostly pull through's and no tent camping. Our mileage yesterday was 290 miles in about 6 hours.
We stopped for lunch at the Wheat Montana Farms and Bakery. All I can say is if you get in this area, please stop and check it out! The food is great, and they sell all sorts of different breads, mixes, jellies, etc. I bought a Honey Walnut cinnamon roll that would have fed 3 people it was so big. Just a really neat place to stop and again, we had stopped there last year on our caravan with Fantasy RV and just had to stop again.
We went through 6 miles of road work on RT 287. This is mentioned because they actually tear up the whole road and you drive on the dirt/gravel through the whole 6 miles. In a motor home, that gets a little bumpy!
That's it for today, see you tomorrow!
Saturday, June 27, 2015
Good morning!
We have been on the road for a week today, and I'm finally starting to feel like I might get over this sinus infection! I can actually breath this morning with out having to blow my brains out in a hundred Kleenex, lol. It's the little things in life.
Yesterday we traveled from Spearfish, SD to Hardin MT where we are staying at the Grandview Campground and RV Park in Hardin, MT. We traveled a total of 276 miles and stayed on I 90. It would have been shorter if we would have taken a different route but stayed on the Interstate. It took us 4 hours travel.
The campground that we are in is just ok, my big problem with it to start with is the terrible smell of unclean cat litter box that hits you as soon as you walk into the office, and that's saying something considering I have a sinus infection and can't smell a lot of anything. We were helped by the owner of the campground, who checked us in and escorted us to our campsite, which was a pull through since we are only staying one night. There is cable and free WiFi, but you might as well use your own WiFi because I never could sign on to theirs. I did check the laundry out, but decided to use my own washer dryer because mine is a lot cleaner even if mine is smaller. The cost to wash one load was $2.50 and to dry one load was $1.00. Sometimes I'll use a campgrounds laundry when I want to wash my sheets so I don't have to wash them in 2 loads.
There is a festival going on in town, but with me having been sick, we decided to pass on the festival and stay in and get caught up on our coach cleaning and laundry. I hate that, but I really want to start feeling better so I don't have to miss anything else on our trip.
Today we are headed to Linclon Road RV Park in Helena, MT where we will spend one night.
We have been on the road for a week today, and I'm finally starting to feel like I might get over this sinus infection! I can actually breath this morning with out having to blow my brains out in a hundred Kleenex, lol. It's the little things in life.
Yesterday we traveled from Spearfish, SD to Hardin MT where we are staying at the Grandview Campground and RV Park in Hardin, MT. We traveled a total of 276 miles and stayed on I 90. It would have been shorter if we would have taken a different route but stayed on the Interstate. It took us 4 hours travel.
The campground that we are in is just ok, my big problem with it to start with is the terrible smell of unclean cat litter box that hits you as soon as you walk into the office, and that's saying something considering I have a sinus infection and can't smell a lot of anything. We were helped by the owner of the campground, who checked us in and escorted us to our campsite, which was a pull through since we are only staying one night. There is cable and free WiFi, but you might as well use your own WiFi because I never could sign on to theirs. I did check the laundry out, but decided to use my own washer dryer because mine is a lot cleaner even if mine is smaller. The cost to wash one load was $2.50 and to dry one load was $1.00. Sometimes I'll use a campgrounds laundry when I want to wash my sheets so I don't have to wash them in 2 loads.
There is a festival going on in town, but with me having been sick, we decided to pass on the festival and stay in and get caught up on our coach cleaning and laundry. I hate that, but I really want to start feeling better so I don't have to miss anything else on our trip.
Today we are headed to Linclon Road RV Park in Helena, MT where we will spend one night.
Friday, June 26, 2015
Yesterday was a long day. It started with me still being sick, but determined to get out and go exploring until I finally had to stop, return to our campground and call my Dr's exchange and get an antibiotic to try and feel better. This morning I still feel sick, but feel lots better than I did yesterday, thank you God!
The only place we traveled to yesterday was Deadwood, SD, where we walked around the casino's, shopped a little bit and ate lunch at Kevin Costner's casino Midnight Star. If your a fan of the actor, the restaurant is a great place to visit and see lots of his movie memorabilia. The food was good too.
Today is a travel day, the weather is supposed to start getting lots better and hopefully I'll start feeling lots better too, so I can enjoy this fantastic trip we are on.
The only place we traveled to yesterday was Deadwood, SD, where we walked around the casino's, shopped a little bit and ate lunch at Kevin Costner's casino Midnight Star. If your a fan of the actor, the restaurant is a great place to visit and see lots of his movie memorabilia. The food was good too.
Today is a travel day, the weather is supposed to start getting lots better and hopefully I'll start feeling lots better too, so I can enjoy this fantastic trip we are on.
Thursday, June 25, 2015
Spearfish, SD
Yes, we have arrived! 10 minutes after we got set up at our campground, the KOA campground in Spearfish, SD the skies opened up! We watched the storm coming, and it was absolutely beautiful! However, the hail that came with that storm, had us scrambling to get our slides pulled in to contain the damage. The motorhome is fine, our car however is not so good, with plenty of hail damage. I called our insurance company to report the damage and decided to wait until we are back in the St Louis area after our Canada/Alaska trip to have any damage fixed, and hoping we don't have any more damage on this trip.
Our trip yesterday was a short one, we traveled 106 miles on I90 from Wall, SD to Spearfish, SD and it took us about 2 hours and 15 minutes.
Today, I hope we can go to Deadwood and look around the surrounding area, the weather doesn't look to promising and I'm still sick, but we will give it a go and see what happens. It's been several years since we were in this area and I loved it when we were here before so would like to explore some of the area that we didn't see last visit.
That's it for me today, I'm still trying to figure out how to post pictures on here but if you look at my Facebook page I'm posting pictures there.
Yes, we have arrived! 10 minutes after we got set up at our campground, the KOA campground in Spearfish, SD the skies opened up! We watched the storm coming, and it was absolutely beautiful! However, the hail that came with that storm, had us scrambling to get our slides pulled in to contain the damage. The motorhome is fine, our car however is not so good, with plenty of hail damage. I called our insurance company to report the damage and decided to wait until we are back in the St Louis area after our Canada/Alaska trip to have any damage fixed, and hoping we don't have any more damage on this trip.
Our trip yesterday was a short one, we traveled 106 miles on I90 from Wall, SD to Spearfish, SD and it took us about 2 hours and 15 minutes.
Today, I hope we can go to Deadwood and look around the surrounding area, the weather doesn't look to promising and I'm still sick, but we will give it a go and see what happens. It's been several years since we were in this area and I loved it when we were here before so would like to explore some of the area that we didn't see last visit.
That's it for me today, I'm still trying to figure out how to post pictures on here but if you look at my Facebook page I'm posting pictures there.
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Wednesday, June 24, 2015
Good morning!
Still fighting a cold this morning, Rod seems to be doing better than I am, which is a good thing, since he's the one driving.
Yesterday we did venture outside and did some shopping at Wall Drug. I really wanted a new piece of Black Hills Gold jewelry but just couldn't find anything that jumped up and said take me home!, so I didn't get any gold.
The highlight of the day was the drive that we took through The Badlands Loop. We had been to this area before, several years ago and it was just as amazing the second time around as it was the first time we drove through the badlands. I took lots of pictures and posted some on my Facebook page, but can't figure out how to post them on my blogger page. When I feel a little better I'll try and figure it out. There is a fee to enter a National Park, but it's nominal, and well worth any cost to see such beauty.
When we arrived back at the campground, we decided to eat dinner at the restaurant across the street from Wall Drugs, the name of the restaurant was The Catus Cafe, the food wasn't to bad, Rod had a club sandwich with fries and I had chicken tenders with a salad and baked potato, but it left a lot to be desired as far as cleanliness was concerned.
Today is a short travel day to Spearfish, SD where we will stay at the KOA for 2 nights.
Still fighting a cold this morning, Rod seems to be doing better than I am, which is a good thing, since he's the one driving.
Yesterday we did venture outside and did some shopping at Wall Drug. I really wanted a new piece of Black Hills Gold jewelry but just couldn't find anything that jumped up and said take me home!, so I didn't get any gold.
The highlight of the day was the drive that we took through The Badlands Loop. We had been to this area before, several years ago and it was just as amazing the second time around as it was the first time we drove through the badlands. I took lots of pictures and posted some on my Facebook page, but can't figure out how to post them on my blogger page. When I feel a little better I'll try and figure it out. There is a fee to enter a National Park, but it's nominal, and well worth any cost to see such beauty.
When we arrived back at the campground, we decided to eat dinner at the restaurant across the street from Wall Drugs, the name of the restaurant was The Catus Cafe, the food wasn't to bad, Rod had a club sandwich with fries and I had chicken tenders with a salad and baked potato, but it left a lot to be desired as far as cleanliness was concerned.
Today is a short travel day to Spearfish, SD where we will stay at the KOA for 2 nights.
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Good Morning!
Still sick! We are so over being sick and it's really putting a damper on the start of our trip. That being said, we had another fairly long driving day yesterday to get to our next campground, (290 miles traveled in 5 hours) We haven't stopped at anything other than Rest Area's and fuel stations since we started from St Louis, so more than ready to take in a few sites.
Our trip yesterday started in Sioux Falls SD and ended in Wall SD at the Sleepy Hollow Campground. The campground is 1 block away from famous Wall Drugs, as the billboards will tell you for at least 200 miles along I 90 before you get there, lol. The drive yesterday was super windy which made it harder to keep the motor home on the road, but Rod is a great driver and we didn't have any problems. We are staying at this campground 2 nights, so should be able to post weather or not it's a good place to stay. I know the campground has 30/50amp service with water, electricity and sewer. There is free WiFi that is working fine so far and cable hookup too, and we are in site C24. I haven't been out to check the pool, restrooms and laundry, but will try and check that out today. There is a discount on cost per night with either AAA or Good Sam.
We are planing on going to Walls Drugs today and if we feel better I would like to hike some of the trails here in the Badlands, but there is a light on/off rain falling this morning so might do the hiking this afternoon when it's supposed to clear up. Hopefully I will finally get some pictures taken today too.
Still sick! We are so over being sick and it's really putting a damper on the start of our trip. That being said, we had another fairly long driving day yesterday to get to our next campground, (290 miles traveled in 5 hours) We haven't stopped at anything other than Rest Area's and fuel stations since we started from St Louis, so more than ready to take in a few sites.
Our trip yesterday started in Sioux Falls SD and ended in Wall SD at the Sleepy Hollow Campground. The campground is 1 block away from famous Wall Drugs, as the billboards will tell you for at least 200 miles along I 90 before you get there, lol. The drive yesterday was super windy which made it harder to keep the motor home on the road, but Rod is a great driver and we didn't have any problems. We are staying at this campground 2 nights, so should be able to post weather or not it's a good place to stay. I know the campground has 30/50amp service with water, electricity and sewer. There is free WiFi that is working fine so far and cable hookup too, and we are in site C24. I haven't been out to check the pool, restrooms and laundry, but will try and check that out today. There is a discount on cost per night with either AAA or Good Sam.
We are planing on going to Walls Drugs today and if we feel better I would like to hike some of the trails here in the Badlands, but there is a light on/off rain falling this morning so might do the hiking this afternoon when it's supposed to clear up. Hopefully I will finally get some pictures taken today too.
Monday, June 22, 2015
Good morning! Yesterday was a long day for me and Rod, longer for Rodney since he was driving 😉. We both have sinus/cold issues, so not a lot of fun traveling while sick.
We started out yesterday from Waterloo IA at the casino, Isle Of Capri, and I won! Not a lot, but since it had been a free night of camping anyway, we left with $60.00 more than we walked in there with! Yea! We didn't leave the casino until almost 10:00am heading to Sioux Falls, SD. We are not in any hurry, and took IA Rt 218, to 18, to Rt 35 into MN then to 90 West into SD. Some really rough roads! Rod even made the comment that MN uses way to much tar to patch their roads it was so bumpy! We arrived at our campground (Yogi Bear-Camp-Resort) in Brandon, SD at 3:30pm, this is just outside of Sioux Falls, SD where we checked in quickly and were directed to site 413. This is a nice campground if you have kids, they have a pool, hot tub, mini golf, free WiFi and cable TV, etc., since Rod and me are sick, we just set up our RV, took Rex out for a short walk and then we both laid on the couches and rested/slept until bedtime. About 4:30/5:00am a really strong storm came through with high winds and hail so Rod got up and pulled the slides in on the coach. I put Rex in bed with us because he hates storm's where he (vibrated/shook) until the storm passed about an hour later. Poor Rexey buddy! This morning is a bit cloudy and we are moving a little slow since we still don't feel very well. Total miles traveled yesterday was 305 miles in 6 hours. Cost of campground for the night was $48.43 with a AAA, Good Sam discount. No pictures again yesterday, but will try harder today.
We started out yesterday from Waterloo IA at the casino, Isle Of Capri, and I won! Not a lot, but since it had been a free night of camping anyway, we left with $60.00 more than we walked in there with! Yea! We didn't leave the casino until almost 10:00am heading to Sioux Falls, SD. We are not in any hurry, and took IA Rt 218, to 18, to Rt 35 into MN then to 90 West into SD. Some really rough roads! Rod even made the comment that MN uses way to much tar to patch their roads it was so bumpy! We arrived at our campground (Yogi Bear-Camp-Resort) in Brandon, SD at 3:30pm, this is just outside of Sioux Falls, SD where we checked in quickly and were directed to site 413. This is a nice campground if you have kids, they have a pool, hot tub, mini golf, free WiFi and cable TV, etc., since Rod and me are sick, we just set up our RV, took Rex out for a short walk and then we both laid on the couches and rested/slept until bedtime. About 4:30/5:00am a really strong storm came through with high winds and hail so Rod got up and pulled the slides in on the coach. I put Rex in bed with us because he hates storm's where he (vibrated/shook) until the storm passed about an hour later. Poor Rexey buddy! This morning is a bit cloudy and we are moving a little slow since we still don't feel very well. Total miles traveled yesterday was 305 miles in 6 hours. Cost of campground for the night was $48.43 with a AAA, Good Sam discount. No pictures again yesterday, but will try harder today.
Sunday, June 21, 2015
I haven't posted on this site in a long time. Unless we go on a long trip I haven't worried to much about it. However, we are just starting out on quite a long trip now, heading from the St Louis MO area up to meet our RV Clubs trip through Alaska on July 15th.
We left the St Louis area yesterday and made it as far as Waterloo IA. We dry camped at the Isle Of Capri Casino in Waterloo, IA, you park by the tractor trailers but wasn't noisy at all, and if you sign up for their awards card in the casino, they give you $5.00 free and when you spend $10.00 of your own money they give you $10.00 back. They have a nice restaurant and buffet, but we ate at our coach, only because I had leftovers that needed to be used up. The casino is also next to quite a large water park and there is also a KOA Campground close by, with it being Father's Day weekend, most campgrounds were booked up, which is why we stayed at the casino 😀.
Our travel time yesterday was 7 hours and traveled 383 miles.
I'll post one picture that Rod took with the IPad of the sky after storms had passed through the area, but that's the only pictures we took yesterday. Will see what today brings.
We left the St Louis area yesterday and made it as far as Waterloo IA. We dry camped at the Isle Of Capri Casino in Waterloo, IA, you park by the tractor trailers but wasn't noisy at all, and if you sign up for their awards card in the casino, they give you $5.00 free and when you spend $10.00 of your own money they give you $10.00 back. They have a nice restaurant and buffet, but we ate at our coach, only because I had leftovers that needed to be used up. The casino is also next to quite a large water park and there is also a KOA Campground close by, with it being Father's Day weekend, most campgrounds were booked up, which is why we stayed at the casino 😀.
Our travel time yesterday was 7 hours and traveled 383 miles.
I'll post one picture that Rod took with the IPad of the sky after storms had passed through the area, but that's the only pictures we took yesterday. Will see what today brings.
Saturday, January 10, 2015
Getting ready to hit the road again for a few days
Getting ready to head to Arcadia FL tomorrow for a few days. Will be staying at Little Willies RV Resort with our club. Will post about the campground and what it's like as I get a chance. Really need to get more organized this year and make some lists of things that need to go/stay in the RV when we travel.
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