Something prolly with the transmission not working quite right to get this big lug up a mountain. Joe figured out
that if he works it manually (puts it into 2nd) it does just fine. So, Joe barely slept because of the freeway traffic,
but we got on out way to Spokane relatively early. In Spokane we stopped at a Sprint store and picked up a broadband card.
In areas where it gets reception, it's pretty good. We're able to drive down the road and still have internet.
We'll see how it works in the long run.
We stopped in Grand Coulee and saw the dam and went for a swim in Lake Roosevelt. That was nice.
We're staying off of highway 155, maybe on reservation land? Not really sure, there are no signs anywhere.
There is a little pond that we are near. Some neat birds on the pond, but it is too dark to get any good pics.
Unfortunately, can't stay here because no internet signal. :(
-Miranda
The Grand Coulee Dam.
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Well, we didn't pick the best time to leave.... right at the start of a thunderstorm. It was just starting to rain when we pulled out of the driveway. It hit Kalispell pretty hard.. There was lightening striking everywhere and lots of wind. We saw one big lightening strike and then the power went out. That wasn't far from Pat and Nancy's so I'm sure they lost power. And people are idiots when the traffic lights don't work... :p There were even some tree branches in the road. Right on the north end of Flathead Lake, south of Kalispell, a tree fell across the power lines and into the road, leaving only one lane of traffic. Fortunately, a firetruck was there directing traffic, but they weren't chopping into the tree yet, so it must not have fallen too long before we got there...
-Miranda
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Well, we make it to Kalispell after some fun events on the road... Sara had just had her oil changed in her car but her car has been burning through oil for some reason. So, we were driving and after about 50 miles the oil light comes on. This is at about 4:30am in the pouring rain.. of course. So, they look at the dipstick as best they could using the headlight and it looks like it's low, so they put a quart in. Well, after 20 more miles, the oil light comes on again. So we get to the next exit and look at it, and the oil looks actually too full... Anyway, it turned out that it probably wasn't low the first time, but they couldn't really tell in the dark/rain. We just dealt with seeing the oil light flash, flicker or stay on steady for most of the trip. Sara and I did a little shopping yesterday so she took her car in to the Honda dealer and it turned out that the sender that tells the light to go on, was bad. She had just had that replaced in April, so they replaced it for free. Yay.
Well, now Joe and I are in Kalispell, back at Pat and Nancy's and we'll see what we do from here.
-Miranda
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So, we left 8am Tuesday morning for the Twin Cities and had an 8 hour lay over down there. Then, we got on the bus to Billings, MT. We arrived here at 11:30am Wed. We are now in Billings at Joe's sister's (Sara) place where we will nap and such until we leave to go to Kalispell at 2am tonight.
How exciting. Sara works until 2, hence the leaving in the middle of the night. We're not really sure what's going on after that....
-Miranda
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Joe captured the mouse! We let him go into the woods as we were leaving the campground. We continued our journey down highway 1A stopping at info spots along the way. We pulled off at a picnic area and there was an old road blocked off from vehicle traffic that we biked down. Once in Lake Louise we biked the Bow River loop. Very nice trail and neat river. We decided to head up to see Lake Louise an almost killed the Rv on the way up. We biked around up there a little but there were way too many people so we went down the hill a little ways to the Continental Divide. The continuation of highway 1A was right there, but apparenlty now closed to vehicles, so we road our bikes down it a little ways. When we were getting gas a lady parked her short bus too close to the gas pump. Upon driving away she busted the pump. Huh.
Too many people in Lake Louise, so we left and headed for Yoho National Park. We stayed at Monarch Campground and biked up Yoho Valley Road (safer than trying to take RV). We saw where two rivers that are different colors come together. Very neat. Coming down the hill was super fun!
-Miranda
The mouse.
Picutre of us in front of the coming together of the two rivers.
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