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Published: August 7th 2007
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We arrived home Sunday, August 5, on our 35th wedding anniversary. What a great trip. The latter part of our trip was filled with visiting friends and relatives and a surprise purchase. We visited friends and family in Great Falls as well as a trip to the Montana State Fair where we stopped by the Sons of Norway booth for a Viking Meatball. This is a LARGE meatball on a stick made from 3 meats and a "secret" spice mixture. The meatballs are cooked ahead of time then put on a stick, dipped in a batter and deep fat fried before serving. Tasty, but very filling. Much, much better than poutine.
From Great Falls we went to Helena for an afternoon visit with my aunt Jessie (my father's sister) and cousin Judy. We continued on to Bozeman for a visit with my aunt Izzy (another of my father's sisters) and my cousin Doug and his wife Rose. Had a great visit, learned about Doug and Rose's trip to Morocco, and spent an afternoon at the Museum of the Rockies. They have an excellent dinosaur display.
We left Bozeman and headed south to Yellowstone Park. Drove through the park and
then through Teton National Park. Both have tremendous scenery. It was slow going through Yellowstone, but well worth the time. We maxed out on traveling at this point and headed home as fast as we could go down I-15. Can't tell you how good it felt to sleep in our own bed last night.
Oh, I think I mentioned a surprise purchase. When we purchased the toy hauler 2 years ago we did it with the idea that it would be the best way to travel if we wanted to take kayaks and bikes with us. Although we had a great trip this summer, we discovered over the course of the summer that carrying these items in the trailer with us wasn't as great an idea as we thought. They pretty well filled the toy hauler and had to be taken out every time we moved to a new location and, of course, reloaded when we packed up to move on. We only kayaked in one location where we put the kayaks in the water at our camp. The other times we needed to load them into the truck to get to a launch point. The same was true
with the bikes. We bike primarily on trails and the US and Canada aren't like Europe. Only a few campgrounds had bike trails from their site. Again we were taking things from the toy hauler to put them in the truck and then the reverse at the end of the day. Just "to look" we visited 3 RV places in Great Falls just to see what was available. Not only did we find something much more suited to our needs, but they gave us an excellent trade on the toy hauler - just what we paid for it 2 years ago. We decided to make the leap, emptied the toy hauler, filled the new rig and the back of the truck and headed for home. The new trailer is shorter and lighter so we get 2-3 more miles to the gallon on gas with this than with the old one. We are already planning some short trips to take this fall.
Our journey is at an end. Canada is a beautiful country with tremendous variety in landscape and culture. Driving across most of the country as we did really gave us a chance to see and appreciate the differences
and the beauty in each of them. Until we hit the trail again - David and Barb
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