Monday 14 August 2006

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Awake: 6:18am Temp 48 sleep 6+05 sunny overnight @
Anaconda, MT.


We leave the Fairmont RV Resort @ Anaconda @ 9:17am. Smooth roads continue
on I-90 eastbound. Since we crossed the Continental Divide, the ups &
downs (elevation changes), haven’t been as excessive as they were in Idaho
& west of Butte, MT. In fact, since Bozeman, our elevation above sea level
has been consistently between 4000 & 3000 ft.

We arrive @ the Old West RV Park in Reed Point, MT @ 12:26pm.

Today’s travel: 3+07 time 182 miles 22 gal used 8.28 mpg
58.3 avg speed.

This Old West RV Park is appropriately named & being here is like a trip
back in time. After parking, we tour this town on foot, population 150. It
is amazing: for a town this size, all the facilities they have available:
a Sinclair fuel station, post office, classic old hotel with a bar &
excellent restaurant we were told, a western saloon, 2 antique stores, a
grade school with approximately 60 students, a somewhat new looking high
school (good size), a saw mill & of course, the Old West RV campground.

Besides the saw mill for local employment, there are farms in the area &
also a Platinum & Palladium mine employing approximately 1000 workers. The
campground owner, Tye, works @ the mine in addition to running their
campground. We enjoyed talking with Tye, his wife Jenetta & the lady
working @ the grade school building.

7:00pm dinner: Smoked Bratwurst, brown rice, spinach salad & bread.

Satellite movie: “Three Men & a Little Lady” with Tom Selleck, Steve
Guttenberg, Ted Danson, Nancy Travis, Robin Weisman, etc. Travis, the
Little Lady’s mother, decided to marry a British actor & move to
England…..forcing the three bachelor fathers to prove that the prospective
husband & father is really a rotter before it’s too late. 1990. We liked
it….for it’s light comedy & as a good family film.

High temp=83 Lights out: 11:22pm

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