June 26th-July 6th 2016
We arrived at Spring Creek Campground and Trout Ranch on Sunday, we had
made reservations way back in Feb which really paid off as we have the
best full hookup site. While the site is not on the river we have a
large yard with no one on our door side, we have a fire pit, FHu's,
great satellite signal and a great Verizon signal.
We were here for 10
days and we couldn't have picked a nicer place to spend the holiday
weekend.There are some nice sites along the river, 30amp w/e only and
then there are some gravel parking lot 50am w/e sites along the water,
they do have a honey wagon but I don't know if they charge, there is a
dump station on site too. Since there is such a diversity of sites we
feel fortunate to have gotten this beautiful site, planning ahead does
pay off.
The camp hosts told us about a local place called Natural Bridge Falls
about 24 miles south of the campground. A beautiful area where during
high water the falls appear, during our visit though the water was
underground at the falls area. Years ago there was a natural bridge here
but it fell down in the late 80's. While the country side is beautiful I
couldn't imagine living here in the winter.
While in the area we wanted to drive Beartooth Pass, something we'd never take our rv over and since it will be awhile before we're in the area again I thought this would be a good time to go. The day we chose to do the scenic drive was overcast, we ended up in a hail storm at 10K feet and had to pull off the road for awhile to wait it out. Hail storm aside it was a beautiful drive.
We saw these guys hanging out in a field on our drive home from Beartooth Pass.
Other than that we've been hanging around home, spending days in our
yard reading and people watching. One afternoon our neighbor asked if
she could come join us in the shade since her site didn't have much of a
yard. Over the course of a few afternoons sitting in the shade we got
to know Vicki and her story. She is a solo rv'er in a small class A.
She's been on the road for over a year and enjoys it, she was here over
the holiday weekend so we all went to the park sponsored bbq Saturday
evening then took a walk around the park checking out the site
decorations. Vicki pulled out Sunday morning after a bit of an issue with her hydraulic jacks, thankfully Dave was able to help her out. We look forward to our trails crossing again.
Our last few stops we've noticed one living rooms slides not retracting all the way, while here Dave took a look and found a broken weld, something that needed to be handled before we start our caravan trip. We spent a few days looking for a welder, finally found one and he came out on our last morning here and got us all fixed up for what we thought was a reasonable price of $100.
We had made plans to meet our friends Steve and MonaLiza of
The Lowe's RV adventures in
Laurel MT for dinner. On the way to Laurel we stopped at Prairie Dog
Town State Park, this might be the smallest state we've ever seen but
the residents were home. When we got there the alarm went up but after a bit there was lots of activity but there were always a few prairie dogs on alert and keeping an eye on us.
We met Steve and MonaLiza at Redneck Pizza, food was great and the company was better. In honor of our upcoming Alaska adventures they both wore Alaska t-shirts. Two hours of talking and making promises of freezing salmon and fish heads for our meetup in Sept and it was time to head home. Thanks Steve and MonaLiza for fun few hours filled with lots of laughter, and thanks for the jerky, Dave is enjoying it. See you in September at Lake Louise.
We enjoyed our 10 day stay in Big Timber MT, there's a small IGA in town for the necessities and a few restaurants that we never tried. The weather has been warm with a few storms passing through, we walked almost every day, got to know the owners and some of the hosts. We really enjoyed our time here and might someday consider it for workamping at, we're now well rested for the craziness that will come on our caravan trip which starts in one week.
Until next time...
