Frederico is sad

Felicia decided to stay with Anne and the Dynamic Duo have split for awhile.....


Wednesday we had a wonderful dinner at Amy and Dan's. Along with Anne, Scotty, Jim and I there was another couple Linda and Mike. They live across the street and they have two Yorkies! Brandy and Angel. Anne grilled some pork chops (some very thick ones) and Amy fixed baked beets, baked carrots, roasted potatoes, sauteed cabbage and peas. All of the veggies came from the garden on Wednesday morning! It was delicious! We all ate our fill and downed wine and beer. For dessert we had apple dumplings that Amy had made earlier. they were tasty too, some had ice cream with theirs.

Thursday morning we drove Anne and Scotty to the Missoula airport for their flight to Maine for a family get together (and Lobster!). They left their motorcoach and car with Amy and Dan.

On the way home we stopped in a few Missoula stores and enjoyed lunch out. By the time we finished lunch we were pooped! So we headed home and crashed for a couple hours. A few leftovers for dinner and a quiet evening at home rounded out the day.

This morning we packed up and left Hamilton for Three Forks, Montana. The drive was a long one due to twisting, winding mountain roads. But it was beautiful! We drove over Chief Joseph Pass briefly straying into Idaho. Driving through National Forests is a treat and for some reason we didn't have much traffic to deal with. We also ran into road work and at one point we sat for about 20 minutes but the scenery was nice.

The road work was on hwy 43 and we had water most of time on one side of the road or the other. I even saw some White Pelicans.

Soon we were getting hungry and looked for a place to pull over. We found a beautiful spot along this river. The parking lot was big enough for our rig and even had a picnic table for us to sit in the shade. Turns out it's a public boat ramp

Not a bad view for lunch

Not sure what the problem with the trees is. One guy mentioned beetle blight.

Back on the road we finally reached I-90, then I-15 to I-90 again as we passed through Butte.

Over another pass and the mountains changed from tree covered to rocky summits. Just gorgeous!

We pulled into Camp Three Forks http://campthreeforks.com/rates.asp shortly after 1400. It used to be a KOA and the grounds are very nice. Gravel sites with grass between them. It didn't take us long to set up and we were able to get our dish to work even with all the trees this place has.

Dinner was shrimp scampi and we're all settled in for the night. Tomorrow we may head to this:
"Montana Antique Aircraft Association Fly-In ~ Hundreds of unique antique aircraft buzz the skies over Three Forks for this annual 4-day event. Come out to Pogreba Field and walk around and talk with the pilots of these aircraft and see the planes up close."

We miss Anne and Scotty but we'll see them soon! And Frederico and Felicia will be together again.....

"If I had to sum up Friendship in one word, it would be Comfort. ~Terri Guillemets"