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The Road Goes Ever On and On (and on and on and...
Dart and I are driving people - we've routinely done 14-16 hour runs and actually enjoy it. Today, we needed to bag the remaining North Dakota park sites *AND* cross about 2/3 of Montana to stay on track. This meant a 7.5 hour stint after seeing the parks...we wound up at our hotel around 1:25 in the morning - tired...
As has been the case …
"The Short Day........."
... lunch of last nights pizza on a bench next to a petrol station and were happy as this last section was through the mountains and recognized as a great road. Walking to the bin and throwing out lunch at the servo I nodded to a couple on a Gold Wing. We would meet later down the road where they would add more time to our "short day"
From Glen
I forgot to mention that about an hour into the trip Cliffy only just remembered that he'd left the tent poles ...
Day 15, Great Falls, MT
... did not have the 20W50 oil I wanted. At the third attempt I got lucky. But they could not change the oil filter, so just an oil change.
At the same time I checked all the fluid levels, gearbox, differential, etc. , and having the sump guard (skid plate, here) off also allowed me to better check suspension and steering. All seemed OK.
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(Singing) Country Roads ...
... would take us to a beautiful canyon way over yonder and we thought we were on it until it just ended in prairie. We drove around in open country for a bit until we came to a ditch that not even our 4x4 would be able to manage. So we back-tracked about five miles over three ba-dums. (A ba-dum can be a level crossing, or in this case, a cattle grid and we always say "ba-dum" as we drive over them).
I'll cut the ...
Eating His Balls...
... to other cows while in close proximity (i.e. slaughterhouses) the cowboys bust grab a circular knife and dig directly into the skull, blood squirting, until they can pry out the root of the things. It’s difficult when you watch them from close – after we each wrestle down a couple, we take turns keeping the calves in order – as their tongue bulges out all pink and thick and gray (we eat that, and it’s not bad) while ...
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- Swimming pool
- Free High-Speed Internet
- Business Services
- Wheelchair accessibility
- Free parking