Best Laid Plans!!

Monday July 8, 2012

Boy were we glad to end that adventure!  We spent the night at Downstream--Fort Peck campground.  We had electricity and the site cost $8.00 with the Senior Pass.
We kept the camper attached to the truck since we were only spending the night...and
there is no place around anywhere to go out to dinner!  We set up and relax for the afternoon.  They have showers which feel wonderful!  Too bad there isn't a shower for our truck and camper.  They are both coated in muck!

We decide to have cheese and crackers for dinner and play a game of scrabble.  I was ahead for awhile but as usual...Ed wins.

Monty met a dog next to us at the campsite and had happy feet running around with her.  It was like seeing him with his friend Toby.  He misses having that fun play time, but boy is he being good on this trip!

Tuesday July 9, 2012

We head out early with the expectation of one more  overnight stay before hitting Two Medicine campground in Glacier National Park in Montana.  There are not a lot of options halfway to there following Rt 2 (no more dirt roads for us! We've made a change in the map program to try to avoid another yesterday!).  It's Fresno Tailwater FAS (which we don't know what that means...but it looks like it's on a reservoir).  It's right off Rt 2 near the town of Havre, MT.  We even found a WalMart near there to get a few essentials.

When we arrive, it appears it is a free campground, on a pebble type driveway.  You get what you pay for!  There are no trees but there are about 10 campers already lined up like a parking lot, all with AC and generators.  Not our style, so we decide to forge ahead.

The mapping program does not have a lot of choices for campgrounds of any type between Havre and Glacier.  There is an interesting one listed about an hour or so away called Chester City Park.  So that's where we head.



City Park in Chester, MT.

It's easy to find.  When we get there...that's what we find.  A city park.  there was a flush bathroom facility, a covered area with lots of picnic tables, a three stall garage with more picnic tables (in case it rains?), a beautiful little garden maintained by the Chester Garden Club. There was someone there cleaning the bathrooms and he assured us, yes, you can camp here.  I was a little apprehensive.  We were the only campers.  It's free.  Leave a donation if you'd like.  I'm still reticent.  But like Ed said, this is better then the one we almost stayed at...at least there are no campers with generators near us!.

The temperature is in the 90's.  We do our minimal set up and have lunch since we were able to find a decent grocery story on the way.

Monty loves the expanse of grass.  I put out a blanket for him to lay on, and instead, he gathers it up into a ball and carries it to the shade of a big tree and settles in.  I think he likes it here.  We read under the trees for awhile, Ed goes for a short bike ride in the downtown area and I try to take a nap...didn't work.  It's too hot.  I have finished reading Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton. It was a fiction.  Great book, Kathy, thanks for the suggestion!

Now I certainly would not have decided to stop here on my own, but the longer we sat here, the more it felt good.

There was even another camper that came along on his bike.  He's originally from Vermont and is making a cross country bike ride from Washington State to
....He travels about 60 miles each day.  There are crazier people out there then us!

We are off tomorrow to Two Medicine Campground off of route 2 near East Glacier, MT.