RV Blog--Life in a Box. This just ain't 'camping' any more.... Tuesday, August 12, 2003: THAT WAS FUN!!! :) Up and over the Big Horns, dragging hubby's motorcycle behind the truck. Then back down into the HEAT until we got to Cody, WY, where we spent an expensive night 'dry-camping' in the huge Walmart parking lot. (If anyone ever tells you that parking your rig overnight at Walmart is cheap, they have tremendous will power!) This Walmart had a whole ROOM full of clearance priced stuff! And a massive fabric department... The next morning, we headed UP, on Chief Joseph Highway, towards Beartooth Pass. Gorgeous! Found our campground, and our friends and settled in amongst the pines, with Fox Creek providing the audio to cover the hum of the mosquitoes! No drinking water in the campground--something about it not passing WY codes so they just shut it off, since the campground will be closed during renovations next summer. On Saturday, I squeezed myself into Michelle's sidecar, Michelle climbed into the driver's seat, hubby got on his bike and we went up and over Beartooth Pass to Red Lodge, MT. An interesting experience, to say the least. It was COLD up there, and raining! I swear, there were a few snowflakes, even! The ride back to camp was much drier, and even sunny, at times. Saturday nite, we got out our dutch ovens and the 10 of us feasted on buffalo chili, cornbread, fresh roasting ears and peach/apple/nectarine pie! And then it was Sunday and time to head home. Back down to Cody and HEAT! And then, up into the Big Horns, by another route--where we spotted an honest-to-goodness bull moose, grazing near the road!!! That night we camped in a totally silent forest of lodgepole pines and shared the leftover roasting ears with a nice young family camped nearby. Unlike the night before, it didn't get chilly enough to need the furnace, but it was a nice night for a campfire--and NO MOSQUITOES! :) Monday, the trip was all down hill and back into the 100 degree heat. *sigh* But, 'home' was a lot different than the Rally craziness we'd left. The bikers had all pulled out and headed back to their real lives--with their new tee shirts and tatoos and leather. I talked to my darling daughter, the Yarndiva, after we got back and she's been asking people if they'd heard the joke about the old couple who live in an RV and needed a new camper so they could go 'camping'! She thinks she's so funny.... She who has more yarn than she will ever have time to knit up! Dinah // Tuesday, August 12, 2003 ______________________ Comments: Post a Comment
THAT WAS FUN!!! :) Up and over the Big Horns, dragging hubby's motorcycle behind the truck. Then back down into the HEAT until we got to Cody, WY, where we spent an expensive night 'dry-camping' in the huge Walmart parking lot. (If anyone ever tells you that parking your rig overnight at Walmart is cheap, they have tremendous will power!) This Walmart had a whole ROOM full of clearance priced stuff! And a massive fabric department... The next morning, we headed UP, on Chief Joseph Highway, towards Beartooth Pass. Gorgeous! Found our campground, and our friends and settled in amongst the pines, with Fox Creek providing the audio to cover the hum of the mosquitoes! No drinking water in the campground--something about it not passing WY codes so they just shut it off, since the campground will be closed during renovations next summer. On Saturday, I squeezed myself into Michelle's sidecar, Michelle climbed into the driver's seat, hubby got on his bike and we went up and over Beartooth Pass to Red Lodge, MT. An interesting experience, to say the least. It was COLD up there, and raining! I swear, there were a few snowflakes, even! The ride back to camp was much drier, and even sunny, at times. Saturday nite, we got out our dutch ovens and the 10 of us feasted on buffalo chili, cornbread, fresh roasting ears and peach/apple/nectarine pie! And then it was Sunday and time to head home. Back down to Cody and HEAT! And then, up into the Big Horns, by another route--where we spotted an honest-to-goodness bull moose, grazing near the road!!! That night we camped in a totally silent forest of lodgepole pines and shared the leftover roasting ears with a nice young family camped nearby. Unlike the night before, it didn't get chilly enough to need the furnace, but it was a nice night for a campfire--and NO MOSQUITOES! :) Monday, the trip was all down hill and back into the 100 degree heat. *sigh* But, 'home' was a lot different than the Rally craziness we'd left. The bikers had all pulled out and headed back to their real lives--with their new tee shirts and tatoos and leather. I talked to my darling daughter, the Yarndiva, after we got back and she's been asking people if they'd heard the joke about the old couple who live in an RV and needed a new camper so they could go 'camping'! She thinks she's so funny.... She who has more yarn than she will ever have time to knit up! Dinah // Tuesday, August 12, 2003
