Day 43 – West Yellowstone to Missoula MT – 286 miles

It was a travel day. Getting everything ready for a move can be a pain. We put up the coffee maker in its original box, put the dishes in their box, put the shower stuff into drawers and cabinets, move the bikes into the bedroom, unhook the electricity, water, and sewer, put the slide up, pull up the jacks, hook up the tracker. We can generally get it all done in less than an hour. We were off before 9.

The drive wasn’t too bad. It did get more windy than we have seen before, and the wildflowers disappeared. We stopped in Butte to get gas and have lunch. Bill pulled over later to take a short nap at a nice rest area. We arrived here at the Missoula KOA. It is another huge park, but it is nicely laid out and has trees. The jacks wouldn’t go down. We think the house batteries were low, so we unhooked the tracker and headed out for shopping. Missoula seems to have everything we need. Bill had found a store downtown that sells cigars, so we headed down there. We stopped at Target on the way back and got some drinks, shampoo, and other necessities. Finally we went to Costco. Bill got some wine and steaks. We both got a book. We picked up some pork chile verde for dinner along with a salad. Costco is right across the road from the KOA, but we have some houses between us, so the noise isn’t bad.

We had dinner and then wandered down to the laundry to do a load. They serve ice cream here every night between 7-9, so we had a small dish. Tomorrow we don’t have far to go, so it should be an easy day to reach Hungry Horse. Everyone speaks highly of this RV park, so we are hoping it meets expectations.