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... are good TV stations once again. It is funny how you miss just this small connection with the US. We have phone coverage, good TV and air connection with our computer once again. We are finally home, but still about 1800 miles from home. Have a few pictures to send. Will head into Idaho tomorrow. We have been following the Lewis and Clark trail a lot. Catch you tomorrow. Oh I forgot to tell you that it is now in the 80's.

Two years ago when we did a house swap we spent a month fishing the Missouri river , so when we came back into town we stopped at the old house, filled the water tanks , and headed for a small campsite on the river, only known by the locals. We spent two nights here, Brent fished the river with a friend, and Jo knitted socks.

Also our computer died and we feel we are missing our right arm, hence the short entries

After working until midnight most days this week , including Wednesday night, the harvesters were rained out on Thursday by noon . They are near finished here in Montana but need a few more good harvest days. A wedding at the end of the month in Lethbridge is adding an additional layer of urgency for some of the crew. I spent Friday morning assembling a fibre art piece, preparing it for quilting. The picnic table was the ...

Don finally slowed down enough today that when he tried to watch a movie he fell asleep. We walked a bit after supper and I had to share my Montana sunset with you. There is a small park just outside the fence of the park. Although we are located on a noisy corner where two main roads come together it is shady and handy to downtown.

Today I travelled with one of the two 'supper wagons' into the remote areas east and north of Great Falls, towards the Canadian border. I've been hearing about this area since the beginning of the trip and how one of the more remote farms is a breeding ground for rattlesnakes. In previous years they have actually seen nests or balls of rattlesnakes. The land is beautiful and I had an opportunity to talk to one of the farmers and asked her about the remoteness. Cathy's ...

We travelled south to Great Falls, Montana, not a long drive but one that let the caravan reconnect for the night. Some of the vehicles and people took longer to get paperwork in order so it was hard today to get a feel today for the real scope of the enterprise. It turns out that many of ...

Today was an interesting trip - we crossed the continental divide at least two times! Each time at almost 7000 feet! The weather that was moving in affected the travel conditions but the worst of today's storm seemed to pass to the south of us. Whew! It was reassuring to be traveling in convoy with a former Greyhound bus driver ahead of us and a trucker behind. We have just caught the ...

... in March. ***WARNING*** MOM...You can't read the following until I'm home tomorrow. The day started off OK. It was just below freezing when I left Pocatello. Then things got progressively worse. The roads started icing up...the temperature dropped to -13....I was climbing to over 2000 metres and it started snowing. My worst nightmare came true. Actually...my worst nightmare happened to someone else. I was thinking as I was driving that I had to write a blog on faith. I was ...

Like us, unless you are an American history buff, you've probably never heard of these men. Well, like many times before, we stop in a place for no reason in particular and then find there is so much to learn, so many interesting tangents. It's great fun even if we only scratch the surface. The frustrating part about it is that we can no longer hold these great chunks of ...

... brown horizontal line in the mountainside is the Going-to-the-Sun road, this is the only way through the park. The Excursion loved it!!!! We reached a point called Logans Pass about 6400ft high where we took a 3 mile hike to see Hidden lake. It was all uphill to the lake but thankfully downhill all the way back. Here is some of the things we ...