We are heading to Dawson Creek BC tomorrow so why I still have a good WiFi connection will upload some random pictures….Enjoy

The next 9 pictures are from Fort Macleod in the itty bitty town of Fort Macleod AB Canada

We are now in Grande Prairie Alberta Canada. The WiFi has been bad since we left West Yellowstone so I do not have too many new pictures to show you, but I thought it would be fun to show you some of the USA & Canada through my windshield which is how I am seeing most of the two countries.

We have met some very nice people along the way. We were in a small town called Fort MacLead Alberta and when people saw our Florida plates they wanted to talk. We met Allie whose daughter lives in Quebec and also has a home in Naples FL. We gave her our card to give to her daughter who know maybe we will hear from her. We also have given our cards to Jackie Reed her husband Tony Reed the Kansas City running back from back in the day. They were both military brats so we really enjoyed reminiscing to them. We gave our card to a couple from Louisiana and British Colombia. You meet the nicest people in RV camps and rest areas. One thing this trip has taught me is sometimes you need to turn off the news, unplug and meet people face to face and you will find that most people are good!

It has been rainy and cold most of the trip until today. Finally beautiful weather although not quite shorts weather for me…I’m a wimp. So for some fun pictures!

From our campground West Yellowstone

We have now been in West Yellowstone and visiting the Park for almost a week. Monday the 17th we explored the little town of West Yellowstone. It has a very nice little train museum and information center. Dave spent time at one of the local fishing stores getting the 411 on the fishing. He spent Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday fly fishing in the park. I went Wednesday but it was too and forgive my French freaking cold!! We don’t get this cold in winter in SW Florida. But on the plus side our RV is nice and cozy.

We have a map of the USA on the side of the RV and every time we enter a new state we get to put that sticker in place so since we are camp about a mile from the Idaho border we decided to take a little excursion into Idaho. I read online that the best root beer floats were just up the road a bit. Well more like 40 miles but what is 40 miles after traveling about 2600 miles.

Last night it snowed and closed two of the passes in Yellowstone so we had to modify our trip today, but it still was beautiful ( kind of like Christmas) and we saw more buffalo and some Elk. Enjoy the pictures!

Hope you are enjoying my pictures and following our adventures!

I know it has been awhile since you have heard from me but the WiFi sucks around here! So to bring you up to date.

We arrived at West Yellowstone via Jackson Hole Wy, the Grand Tetons and Old Faithful. Jackson Hole has a nice Albertsons so was able to re-supply the necessities…Junk food:-). Grand Tetons National park is very small but lovely would be a nice place to camp if we find ourselves back this way. It has a nice information center.

Our first Buffalo sighting.

Should have turned south!

To bring you up to date since the last blog. We left Sidney NE on a cold but clear day June, 13, 2019. We stopped at this great rest area and archeology site just east of Cheyenne. We thought we smelled something hot but thought it was all the trucks parked around us. Wrong! Maybe a mile from an exit to Cheyenne we first lost our power steering then all the gages went wild and lost all electronics. Dave was able to muscle the RV off 80 and into a Walmart parking lot where we discovered a shredded serpentine belt (what do you expect it was made in Thailand ) We called roadside service and they were able to place a new belt and get us on our way albeit 3 1/2 hours later, but all in all could have been much worst. Dave wanted to make it to Rawlins Wy (we are on a schedule) and we did, but not before we encountered fierce weather the worst winds so far and rain and lots and lots of road construction. Two lane road for miles in blowing wind and rain…loads of fun. The dogs however did surprisingly well as they slept through most of it!

A little about Boulder WY: It has a population of 170 it is at 7016 Elevation and about 90 miles south on state route 191 of Jackson Hole WY just in case you want to look us up on the map. The weather is much warmer here than in Rawlins…Yeah!

We have come 2618.6 miles from home. Tomorrow we move on to Moran WY and then to West Yellowstone MT. I probably won’t blog again until Yellowstone unless something really exciting happens.

We are in Sidney NE for the night we are in a nice campground run by Cabela’s as this is the home and mothership of Cabela’s stores. But I want to add more pictures of the Stuhr Museum. In no particular order.

I took many more but I think you get the feeling for the place. If you are ever in Grand Island NE it is worth the stopover

Today we went to the Stuhr Museum in Grand Island. There was a nice information center with a well done museum that had many hands on exhibits for children. This month they are featuring Dentist and Doctors form the late 1800’s through WW1. There is also a small village with stores and houses from the period. Henry Fonda was born in Grand Island and help pay to move the house he was born in to the museum grounds. Volunteers stayed in period when talking to you. When we approach Henry Fonda’s house a lady was working in the garden in period clothing. Dave mention that is must be hot in those clothes during the summer especially without air conditioning. She said yes it could be hot but she didn’t know what this air conditioning was.

We stayed in a nice KOA just east of Grand Island they have a fun little store, but the spaces are too close together.

It has been cold since we left Wellington Kansas on Sunday and today it rained off and on, but made it nice to walk around the village.

I will post more pictures when I have a better internet connection.

As usual picture talk louder than words so here you go!

Old dental chair

So wanted to bring you up to date since leaving Shreveport LA and said goodbye to the most HORRIBLE ROAD SYSTEM!!! Ok I won’t mention again. East Texas is beautiful all along the roads (and they are really nice) are fields and fields of wildflowers. Black-eyed Susan, Queen Anne’s lace, and pink,purple and red flowers. Couldn’t get a good enough look to tell what they were. We ended the day in Ardmore Oklahoma after crossing Texas via Dallas and US35. The KOA where we stay was very nice and clean. Very new the buildings were only about 3 years old and so the trees were small but in a couple of years they will be nice shade trees. We are now in Wellington not New Zealand but Kansas:-). We will stay until Sunday and then move north to Salina KS as we have a schedule to keep! First picture is By The Lake KOA campground. We had a pretty nice rain storm in the evening. Driving from Ardmore to Wellington was a very bad weather day. We even had to pull over in a parking area (they don’t seem to have rest areas around here) because the rain was so bad and people were just pulling to the side of the road so made driving dangerous.

Waiting for a train as we were heading to get back on the Interstate.

We spent today June7, 2019 in the little town of Wellington KS visiting the Panhandle Railroad Museum and the Chisholm Trail Museum. If you want more detail information you can look both of them up on the internet, but I would rather just show you pictures. We also ate at a very good Mexican food restaurant called Fabiola’s excellent Sopapillas more cake like than what you would find in the southwest.

Hubby has never found a gun or cannon he hasn’t loved!

After an enjoyable stopover in Vicksburg LA we are again heading west. The roads in Louisiana are by far the worst we have encountered and that is going some. America our roads are the pits!!!! We are at a nice KOA campground just west of town so won’t have to face rush hour traffic in the morning. The Mississippi River had breach the bank on the LA side of the river. Bailey is doing so much better he slept in his bed for most of the day instead of my lap…progress.