6-20-08
It's 2:30 in the afternoon. We have been in Montana for some time now. We have been following I-15. There was an odd moment when the mountains just left. Everything was rather smooth and the mountains on either side were rather far away. The mountains are closer now. On our right there are massive clouds. We have made only a few stops. One was in Fort Hall to see the Indian Museum. It was pretty cool. They had some beautiful bead work.
The other place we stopped was Blackfoot, Idaho to see the potato museum. We have pictures of us from there when we stopped and visited when we were little. We were about a 1/3 of our current and and Ben was about 1/4 of how tall he is now.
We got to Butte, Montana. We made camp at a
KOA. We went to the
Wal-mart super center. It was the biggest
Wal-mart we had ever seen. We got a new hitch for the Explorer because the old hitch went straight out so that on dips and such the back of the trailer would scrape the ground pretty bad. :( The new one drops down a few inches so it doesn't scrape any more unless there is a really big dip. We walked around on the trail at camp. There is a lot of marsh land with ducks.
6-21-08
Saturday Morning. We started putting down the trailer so we could get going. Sarah was cranking up the four legs. She got two of them up and then had to stopped to help move the bikes. Ben took the handle and went to finish raising the legs. He only raised one of the two that were left. the legs are on the corners to steady the trailer. the one he missed was on the back. We got every thing finished and Mom backed the SUV up to the hitch. The front of the trailer had slipped down and we were having a hard time lifting it up to put it onto the ball of the car. Usually Ben can lift the trailer by himself, but this morning, we were all trying, but not making any headway. We tried emptying the trailer and adding weigh to the back to make the front easier to lift. Still no luck. Sarah suggested that we put the trailer hitch wheel on some rocks and then raise it up. After a few tries, it finally worked. I have never had so much trouble with the trailer before. It was really weird. We were finally ready to go and we walked around camp one more time to make sure we had not forgotten anything. While we were walking around, Ben noticed that the back leg was still down on the trailer. He pointed out that it would have probably been easier to lift the trailer if this leg was up and not stuck against the ground. Ben got the leg lifted, but it was so hard, we practically had to unhook the trailer to lower it down so we could get the leg up again. We are on the road again. We got to
Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. We got to our campsite at last. There were so many trees. It is so green and beautiful. We like our camping spot, but it is a long, long, long way to the bathrooms. We met with David and his family at Farragut State Park. What a beautiful place. It was nice and cool. I don't think it ever got above 85 degrees.
6-22-08
David and Sue have a cute, fat little dog.(That's Sarah's definition.) It is a beagle mixed with a fox hound. The boys think that camping is for sitting in the trailer and playing game boys. David said that if you have one boy, you have one boy. If you have two boys, you have 1/2 a boy, and if you have three or more boys you have nothing. This is true, because the boys were so involved in playing their games that they didn't know that the rest of the world existed. David and Sue did all the cooking. I'm not sure it was really a vacation for them. We took a driving tour of Farragut park. It is so beautiful. We went and took a look at the lake and went to check out the boat docks to see if there was a place to launch David's canoe. We stopped at several view points. At one point, there were some wonderful climbing trees next to a camp cabin. The kids had fun climbing in the trees and running around. Codie even went out to sit on a limb with Sarah.
