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 September 4, 2022  Glacier National Park - East Entrance Found I'm terrible at blogging - I get tired or am working on other things and just don't get to doing a daily blog. We set up the RV at Chewing Black Bones Campground in Babb, MT last night after a very long drive from Billings, MT (7+ hours). We arrived just before sunset.  Haze is due to forest fire smoke! We had to level using blocks - we were able to do this all on our own! Set-ups and take-downs of the RV have gone very smoothly, and Linda and I have little to no comments to make in our trip diary of things to remember to do or new things we learn about RVing. The terms "wide open spaces" and "Big Sky" hardly do justice to Montana. Wow!  Miles and miles between exits - and often no services at the exits - just roads to ranches.  It's amazing to think about people owning this land that's so vast.  It was endless! As we drove yesterday and for most of today, we experienced smokey haze, res
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 August 31 - Where the Deer and Antelope Play (August 30th - too tired to blog - decided to just catch up and do today, rather than try to catch up.  Linda blogged about the day:   https://judylindatravels.blogspot.com/2022/08/number-two-leaving-twin-cities-with.html .) Sitting under the stars and Milky Way - a wonderful star-fill night!  It's so dark in our campground, we can see so many - Where's Frank Mills when you need him?  He really could enlighten us about what we are seeing. Hello from the Theodore Roosevelt National Park - North Unit. Badlands landscape behind us. Great day - We're in Medora, ND, about as far west as you can go on I-94 in ND.  We rented a car yesterday in Dickinson - on our way here. Morning was a little cold - 50-ish.  We did get the heat working today!  Thanks to dad Herman, who I heard say so many many times, "Did you try turning the furnace off and then on again?" before running out to a nighttime call.  After scouring the online man
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 On the Road Again - Day 2.  August 29, 2022 It was one of those two women and an RV on the Road days - at least in the morning. Lesson One learned today:  We had a near-perfect hook-up.  We came THAT close, as Linda said, and then sh_t happened.  Literally!  Just a little glitch when we hooked up - like taking the end caps off of the sewage hose.  Linda had no trouble hooking up, but when she went to take off the sewage hose,  . . . ICK!  Spewing black water.  She closed the valve quickly only to find she had left the end caps in the hose.  A little spillage near the RV.  RV host was not real happy with us, but did disinfect the site, after washing it off. Gloves on - Unhooking - prior to spillage!  All seemed to be going well. Cleaning out the yuck. Lesson Two today:  We also had difficulty in disconnecting the water hose from the RV.  We both tried and tried.  We couldn't budge the hook-up.  I even got tools out!  Wrench and channel locks!  Still couldn't budge the black
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August 28, 2022 On the road again with my best friend, Linda, on her RV - the Teacher's Lounge. Uneventful drive from Grayslake to Apple Valley, MN.   Nice Campground.  Linda got us all hooked up without any major issues.  I walked Corky; he got 5 big burrs in his tail.  I pulled out as much as I could.  Linda cut out the rest.  Let's just say his tail isn't as bushy! Tonia Baxter, as friend of Linda's joined us for an RV dinner. Linda did dishes; I walked Corky on a beautiful evening.
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