This morning after finding a dump station to empty our tanks and get more water we found a nice little rest area on the edge of Stanley. We have our generator turned on making electricity and we are both on our computers checking mail and doing a blog post before we head out. A relatively short drive today.
We are driving on to southwest Montana today and will find another woodsy campsite for 2 or 3 days then on Livingston Mt. to full hook ups at a campground about an hour out of Yellowstone for 3 days. We will get caught up on laundry again and enjoy long showers with running water and not being conservative before heading on to Yellowstone. We will have no cell service for the next three days again most likely.
Some photos from the drive out today – going towards Stanley:
As you can see it was foggy – not real bad though:
The mountains:
The river:
Don’t know how much you can read off of this sign – it looks kind of small print to me. It tells about historic things in this area:
Pulled over at the rest area – pretty scene itsn’t it:
(I am writing this on the 29th in the morning and will schedule it to post tonight) (might not hear from me again for several days unless there is a signal after all that will be strong enough for the connection to the internet)
Today (Wednesday the 28th) we decided to take a short drive north to some old mining areas of Idaho. Idaho has a lot of ghost towns. Some still have buildings – others just markers of what had been there.
We stopped at Stanley first so I could connect up to the internet and collect my e mail and send off a post about Stanley and the campground. We knew there was a 40% chance of rain today and the sky looked gray. We took a picnic lunch with us anyhow as we knew there would be little along the way to find in the way of food and we were right – nada – except snack food and very little of it. We did get our lunch while the weather was dry but it did rain for a short while as we were walking through Custer City Ghost Town (which is really a well kept walking tour museum).
On the drive up out of Stanley we were driving along side the Salmon River. Here is a pretty little waterfall that seems to appear from underneath a tree:
The mountains and sky on this dark morning:
Some of the photos are from Mike and some like this following one are from my phone – I forgot my camera behind at the camper this morning. This cemetery is from Bonanza City. There is not much left there besides the gravesites.
I thought the wire fence around this site was interesting:
This long flight of steps went to the Salmon river from the above rest area – Mike caught me from the back on the long trudge back up! Got my exercise in early today no wonder I am so sleepy tonight!
Pretty “Sego Lilies” that grown around here – I will check out the spelling of this later as I have no photos in the flower book for it. I’m pretty sure that is their name:
One of the few remaining buildings in Bonanza City:
The following photos of this old town are from Custer City – up the road from Bonanza City a short way. This is very much a walking tour through on old town. Lot’s of antiques.
This is the sign in front of the above building:
Old bottles lining the window:
Me – wandering into one of the little museum buildings – notice the roof?
Talk about recycling early in history – the roof shingles are made out of flatten tin cans! That is a lot of cans flattened – I wonder who had that job?
I got done with one more star block for the Star Crazy BOM – 4 down 3 more to go. I think I just might get done with the July assignment on the road – that will leave August and September to get done with after we get home so I can be caught up. I will press all the star blocks next chance I get and I will square them all up after we get home.
We are heading to Southwest Montana in the morning – destination to be decided in the morning. We are driving though Salmon but decided not to camp there. We will be stopping to get groceries though so I will most likely post this post from there.
(written on the evening of the 28th – Wednesday)
