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We drove out State Hwy 200 to State Hwy 83 to State Hwy 35 which took us to Kalispell. On the way we paid homage to Diane’s late aunt, Barbara. Exactly 46 years ago on their way back from Glacier National Park Barbara, her boyfriend, Diane, her sister and 3 cousins were involved in an […]
The plan was to leave Missoula at about 11:00 am to get to the RV Campground in Burns, Oregon at about 8:00 pm because the temperature was due to be 105 degrees there. So it was south on US Hwy 93; west on US Hwy 12 to Kooskia, ID; south on State Hwy 13 to […]
Diane had made 2 nights reservation at a Motel 6 in Missoula. We wanted to see the town on our way to Glacier National Park and it was time to get the van its regular service. But sometime in the middle of last night I woke up remembering that my driver’s license expires on my […]
Got up early and packed up in order to get to Old Faithful early. We arrived at the Old Faithful parking lot a little after 9:00. The parking lot was only about ¼ full and we found a parking space in the shade at the very back for Slinky. We walked up to Old Faithful […]
We were off by 8:00 am to the Grand Teton National Park and then to Yellowstone National Park where Diane had booked us into the Bridge Bay Campground for the night. The smoke was lessening as we drove north threw Jackson and into the Grand Teton National Park. We were able to get some pretty […]
Friday morning Diane walked over to the market while I posted the week’s happenings on the blog. I finished posting around 1:00 and we decided to take a walk around Alpine. The town is really small but they had a nice Ace Hardware store and we purchased a splitter for our extension cord. Then it […]
In the morning we stopped in Ketchum. Diane wanted to book a campsite near the Grand Teton National Park and Jackson for four days so we could explore both the Grand Teton and Yellowstone Parks during the week. She found a RV Campground in Alpine, Greys River Cove RV Campground. So off we went to […]
In the morning while having coffee we saw a pair of bald eagles out in the marshy area hunting something and then fly away with it. Ahh, Mother Nature. Fortified with coffee we were on our way towards Ketchum and the Sawtooth Mountains. We followed the Payette River to State Hwy 21 then the South […]
We got up early and went to a Starbucks to update the blog. After getting the Slinkystravels.com up-to-date we were on our way to somewhere around McCall to camp for the night. It was still smoky as we leaving Lewiston and we were still traveling on the Lewis and Clark Trail but this time we […]
After picking up Slinky and saying goodbye to the Maas family we headed east on what they call the Lewis and Clark Trail. We started east on State Hwy 124 which followed the Snake River for about 20 miles. The highway then broke away from the Snake River as we were on our way to […]