Onward to more stamps

Friday, August 23, 2013

As we pulled away from the Rising Sun campground this morning and headed out of the park, a coyote ran across the road in front of us. He kind of hesitated like he might stop, then went on. But all too quickly to get a picture.

After the spectacular surroundings of Glacier National Park, this scenery was totally different! This was rolling plains of wheat. The day was gray and overcast which obscured whatever hills might have been out there. The overcast kept the sun from scorching us, but it was plenty warm.

Arriving in Havre, Montana, we stopped at Walmart to restock a few items. This trip as been off the grid and about the only thing we have purchased so far has been cherries and pastry items. So after 10 days, a grocery store was a good thing.

The Bear Paw museum in Chinook was our destination, and that was a few miles more.  We got out stamps, watched the video, and poked around the museum. It was really well done and we enjoyed the stop.

Heading back to Havre, we were looking for the Great Northern fairgrounds and campground. There are not a lot of places to camp when you are in great plains country. The fairgrounds campground was not an exceptionally scenic place, backing right on to highway 2, but it was convenient and offered power and shower. We haven’t had power yet this trip.

So we settled in for the night and ignored the traffic noise – it didn’t bother us with the air conditioners cooling down the campers, and not much traffic during the night anyway. The sunset was pretty, and we have more adventuring to do tomorrow.