Awake: 5:45am Temp 63 sleep 6+10 sunny elevation 3129 ft.
overnight @ Billings, MT.
We leave the Trailer Village RV Park @ 8:52am…..then 15 min down I-90; we
stop @ Flying “J” & top off our tank with 155 gal of diesel fuel. Smooth
roads continue…now on I-94. Arrive @ the Glendive campground in Glendive,
Montana @ 1:22pm.
Today’s travel: 4+27 time 225 miles 26.4 gal used 8.5 mpg
57.1 avg speed.
We like this campground; it’s circular in style with large trees
separating the camping sites. The campground is virtually empty this time
of day so the young lady who checked us in allows us to pick our own site.
Our preference for a site direction is an easterly heading unless a scenic
view, entertaining view, or action packed curiosity view is possible.
Today we simply select heading east.
After lunch, we drive our Suzuki downtown (2 miles) & check out the town
(population 4000). During our close scrutiny, it’s obviously that this
town has lost some of its population over the yrs. There were many empty
store fronts & many classic buildings not being occupied. We see so much
of this across the lower 48 states in our travels: the slow declining of
the small to medium size towns. It’s kind of sad.
Our supply of spinach & lettuce is running low so we shop @ an Albertsons
to restock. During checkout, we actually see someone we know: the young 17
yr old girl who so professionally checked us in @ the campground about 2
hrs ago. She has 2 summer jobs, Albertsons being the 2nd.
7:05 dinner: Kathy’s style homemade meatloaf with a mixed lettuce &
spinach salad. Excellent, in fact I ate more than I needed to.
Satellite movie: “The Hudsucker Proxy” with Tin Robbins, Jennifer Jason
Leigh, Paul Newman, Charles Durning, etc. A country bumpkin arrives in the
big city & becomes the unwitting pawn in a scheme to ruin a thriving
corporation. This is the Coen Brothers most extravagant creation to date,
an eye-popping ‘50’s fantasy of big business gone berserk. 1994. It was
great entertainment!
High temp: 85 Lights out: 11:05pm
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