South Bound, Oct 29-30, 2010

Oct 29th (Friday)

We left Deer Lodge Montana knowing we were driving today and tomorrow to click off the miles heading south.  

I even helped drive some today. 

Tonight we stopped in Idaho Falls, didn’t even unhook as the site was long enough.

Oct 30th (Saturday)

Knowing we wanted to drive 300 miles today, we left at 7 am.  Did you know it was still very dark then?  After navigating the RV Park in the dark and then filling with diesel in the dark, we headed south again.

Bob is in silhouette with the sunrise.

Soon we crossed into Utah.

The urgency for our traveling 300 miles today was to beat a predicted storm which was to arrive mid afternoon and our plan was to beat it to Nephi, UT.

Here we are all snug in our RV site, weather station up, Motosat up, and Directv tripod dish up.  We did beat the storm!

On our way finally, Oct 28, 2010

Bright and early on Thursday morning the coach, with a slide out, was pulled into a service bay to complete sealing up  with silicone, the bottom of the extended slide.

We thought it should take perhaps an hour, but we were wrong.  Around noon the coach was finished up, we completed the paperwork and we were then on our way south. 

Our drive was short, only about 80 miles to Deer Lodge, MT.  We were just happy to be “on the road” after sitting at Bretz’s for one day shy of three weeks.

Ghost towns, Nov. 1, 2010

Today we were off to explore, stopped in the almost ghost town of Mammoth, UT.  This exuberant pack greeted us and quickly we were adopted.

We also found the cemetery associated with the really ghost town of Diamond.

Each cemetery has stones that tell a story. In this one we found two identical stones with different inscriptions, each a set of twins born about a year apart and each set died within a few days of being born, what sadness.

 

 

Here is Bob up on some mine tailings, they were too steep for me to climb up on.  Also it was near here he encountered a rattlesnake sunning itself.  Didn’t take either of them too long to change directions…Bob was too busy with a hasty retreat to get any photos.

This new shiny fence is being held in place by the old fence posts.  Sometimes the new is not better than the old.