Happy Birthday to Me

I had a wonderful August 14 turning 53. After Friday, August 13, I needed a good day. Dave and I spent the day with Dad, Pat, Lauch, Laura, Janice and Joey. Ian was still in France being fancy. We had beautiful steak for dinner and I relax. We spent the night in the Walmart parking lot and were on the road early this morn.

We are hunkered down in Quinty County at a great (though pricey) RV park. Golf tomorrow and then 3 days with my girls at Timber House Lodge, just down the road. Dave will be taking the Enterprise, Dolly and the Cougar back to Cornwall on Tuesday as I start my time with the girls.

Thank you for reading my life in the fast lane.... Signing off for this trip... Don't know if we will ever RV again but it has been a slice... Love Francys and Dave.

The Day that didn't happen

I am just going to pretend today didn't happen. Bad, bad ......

Just Another Day

Drove and drove and drove...my back, she is killing me. We are in St. Ignatus, Michigan and are at a great RV spot, Tiki. Hope to be in Canada, via Sarnia tomorrow. Gotta get to my golf vacation on August 17. Missing my home, my friends, my life.

We blew it!!!

We set out from Devil's Lake pleased that we had coped reasonably well with our adversity. We had been on the road about 70 miles when.... Oooo, that smell, can't you smell that smell..... Burning Rubber..... Blown right rear drive tire. WHAT????? Unload the cougar, drive 40 miles to Grand Rapids, North Dakota, get advice, drive back to the Enterprise, drive the Enterprise at 30 MPH back to Grand Rapids. I was following along behind the Enterprise in the air-conditionless Cougar grooving away to the radio. Took an awefully long time at 30 MPH to go 40 miles. We got to Big Jim's Tires where John took care of us and had us back out on the highway in under an hour with both arms and legs. Awesome stuff.

We drove to Warba, Minnesota and stopped in for the night at Sal's RV. Dean not only let me use the decorative firepit, but also helped Dave locate the fuse for Dolly's left turn signal. God is good all the time....All the time, God is good.

Hotel WalMart

Happy Birthday, Mom (cheap way to send a card).

August 10 saw Dave and me wet, upset and left-signal-on-Dolly-less; we got to the geographically center of North America after battling tremendous rains only to find one of Dolly's lights was dragging on the ground. A couple of tie wraps later, we were on the road looking for a hardware store. We found one in Devil's Lake, North Dakota, bought the lock washers, then the rains caught up with us, driving us to seek refuge in the Devil's Lake WalMart. Dave got the light re-attached but no juice. Oooh... Nobody knows the troubles I seen... Nobody knows my.... August 11 has to be better.

Hooooomeward Bound, I wanna be hooooomeward ....

We left our campsite outside (Canadian side) Waterton/Glacier International Peace Park this morning by 9:00 AM and with a hard day's drive, we arrived in Glasgow, Montana. Not much to see but after seeing a bear, some deer and other wild animals a quiet drive with no seep winding roads is alright with me.

The trip through the mountains was scary for me as the passenger but Dave loved the driving challenge. Our highest altitude was 1781 meters above sea level. Now we are at 700 meters (2158 ft). The pictures I took of the seep winding road running beside a mountain gorge just don't look scary enough to convey the fright of hurling (at 30 MPH) down the mountain pass.

Could someone please wish Margaret a "Happy 83rd" from Dave and I.... No phone service.

We hope to make it to Devil's Lake, North Dakota tomorrow.

Wow

Busy, busy, busy. We left Calgary around 8:30 and got to Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump around 10:30. Toured the museum - pretty cool. Then moved on to Waterton Springs Camp Ground, dropped Dolly and the Enterprise got in the Cougar and away we went. Took a boat tour in Waterton National Park. Leaving here tomorrow....Homeward bound with a stop at Dad and Pat's.