Thanks all who contributed to this effort!
Energy is on our minds as you may guess after the last couple of bloggs...can we call the writings something different???Blogg sounds so blog or down. I think they should be called wonderings or wayfarings???
I am trying to figure what in the hell the above photo is about?? But it is kinda of interesting.
Sometimes my phone camera takes pictures of my leg, the dashboard or Paddy's butt and I know I didn't mean to snap any of those photos.
We left Fort Pec Downstream Campground, Montana, sadly, but The Wedding Calls and we have to cover a few more hundreds of miles to make it on time. Fort Pec had everything a kid like me could want! I think I could spend at least 4 days there which is 1 day more than my record. Wonderful helpful youth in the Interpretative Dinosaur and Historical Museum, fishing, swimming, biking and no mountain climbing or swarming mosquitoes, although the camp hosts (from Florida) told us they are bad sometimes. Montana has hundreds and hundreds of miles of reservoirs built for flood control and irrigation and then later to make energy (after WWII). Bill Lynch and Joe Catapano would love the tour of the Power House and Hydroelectric Dams. Pat couldn't believe the size of the wrenches used in maintenance and tried to lift one, luckily it didn't hurt his ability to drive this machine. The Earth Dam at Fort Pec is amazing, the largest in the world, and the information for history and geology learners incredible. FDR New Deals made jobs for people up here when the farms were failing and the people were starving and now there are hundreds of miles of bird and wildlife refuges (Some of largest migratory bird refuges, Charles M. Russell-named after a famous artist) and Bowdoin.) At Fort Pec, an entire town was built, they have a summer theater in one of the historic buildings and a hotel which reminds us of one of Yellowstone's.
One of the things we knew might happen with this semi-ass big Proud Mary RV is that we couldn't get down very rough roads, well the dear Wildlife Rangers at Bowdoin got on the ground with Pat and said it probably would be ok, but couldn't understand why our landing gear(leveling) was so low. No problem we road the tandem bike.
But Pat is calling the Mennonites and trying to find out more info. Bowdoin in the photos has one of the largest shorebird and white pelican sanctuaries in the country. It has over 263 different species of birds and 2000 in number white pelicans..I think they must travel back down to the Gulf in the winter. There are also many mammals including Pronghorn Antelope and wild Horses.
Paddy is doing laundry, I have to start cooking at this first Private Campground we have stopped at, but they have chickens and we bought a doz eggs for $2.00 and gladly. Montana has also been great for 4G and being able to make a "hotspot" for Pat's work. I can't believe how many words I have misspelled like Cores/Corps.Oh well.
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