After staying in one place for 6 days, it took us a bit longer to get packed up to move on. Its only about 200 miles from Stanley to Missoula, Montana but its a scenic drive through canyons and mountains and it took most of the day to get there.
As I said it was scenic! We followed the Salmon River almost the whole way through towering canyons, lush valleys of irrigated farm land and over the Bitterroot Mountains. We would think that the road was going to level out in a valley and then more mountains would loom or all of a sudden we were in another canyon. Our lunch stop was on the river with one of those canyon walls across the road. We also encountered some Mountain Bighorn Sheep crossing the road but it happened so quickly I didn’t get a picture.
We are staying in the Missoula KOA, the same one we stayed in 4 years ago when we visited all of Montana that summer. Our first job was to go grocery shopping. It had been over two weeks since I had been in a super market of any size. It took $250 to fill up the refrigerator! Our second and third jobs on Tuesday morning was to wash the RV and the Jeep and to do a bunch of laundry. John washed while I laundered. Our fourth job was to get haircuts. Then we went our separate ways shopping.
We sat at the Plonk Bar enjoying cocktails and small plates for dinner while visiting with a nice couple from Washington and watching the mixologist create some unique looking cocktails. It made for a very enjoyable evening.
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