Tuesday - June 23

Sunny warm day and we are now settled in Glasgow, Montana at the Cottonwood Inn and Suites with campground (22 sites) behind the hotel..   It was good to get the "rough" road behind us although had some other areas here and there.    For the most part, Route 2 has been a good highway.       When we were talking to our biker buddy, Gary yesterday, he said how awful it was for him riding thru that horrible dust on the roads and when trucks passed, getting pinged and dinged by little gravel pellets.    He said his helmet has lots of dents!  

 After getting Big Red washed last Thursday and then rain on Friday and all the dust and dirt past few days, both Flo and Big Red were dirty, dirty!!!!!     Luckily for us, Glasgow has a big car wash especially for RV's, trucks, etc. that you can pull thru (do-it-yourself), but for $17 Mark got 95% of the dirt off.    Lots of people in ND and MT have dirty vehicles especially pick ups.    Another Alaska memory

As we were driving thru Williston this morning we came upon "3-Bean Espresso" a teeny little coffee shop (so much like in Alaska where these are everywhere).    Parked our big rig on side street and walked over to get our coffee fix.     Later we saw a few more of these cute little coffee places along the way.

3-Bean Espresso with Mark, the customer

While traveling thru ND, we saw very few homesteads in the "middle of nowhere" and drove thru very few towns - just oil rig  after oil rig.    Today, in Montana, lots more homes, small towns and of course, many oil rigs.

Big oil drilling country

We took a little drive around town (pop.  3,328) .  Some places are still carry out or drive thru (McDonalds, Dairy Queen, etc.) but others are full dine in.    We were looking for some ice cream but McDonalds and DQ were only choices - long line at DQ, so decided we didn't need it.

It is HOT here - 91 after several days in the 60's and 70's.    We are now in the Mountain time zone, so gained another hour today.     Last night at our Lewis and Clark campground, it was still light at 10 and this morning, bright and early at 5 AM, the sun was shining!

Mark took a long nap and we just chilled in the cool AC.