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An Afternoon Drive and an Area Campground, one of many!



I had posted this photo and not gone back to edit or publish it until today. On June 29th Stacy and I drove to Libby, Montana, about an hour away, for the drive and to check out a few places, like the photo below, to hopefully some weekend soon check out with our trailer. 
The photo is a pull through RV site at the East- Yaak River campground, in Montana, about a half hour or so from our property in Idaho. 
The pull through is actually the roadway to the left with the pass by on the right. To me this photo looks like it could just as easily be on the coast of Washington instead of over 400 miles inland in North Idaho. 
Still, we really liked this and a couple of other sites at this same campground. Ten dollars a night, 14 day limit, no hookups, and several of the sites are right along the Kootenai River. 
The West Yaak River campground with it's entrance just a few yards before the entrance to this group if heading east, and on the other side of a gully, has more sites but most are a lot smaller. 
It would still be great if we came over with our motorcycles and tent trailer like the family trips we did back in the 1990s, but I didn't notice any sites that could take even our 28 foot trailer there. At this east side there are quite a few that looked deep enough to back into, or just use one these pull throughs, couldn't get easier! 
We actually had to wait a bit because a guy and his wife were blocking the byway while they attempted to park their too big trailer into a too small space because it had the mentioned river overlook at the site he wanted. 
When I asked him how long his trailer was he said it was 26 foot, but I think he must have been mistaken as it looked a lot longer than ours, I'm thinking his to be 30 or more feet long. 
I know for a fact that in trailer manufacturer lingo just because it may have a "26" in the unit model, it seldom means 26 feet long! Our 5th wheel trailer, that is destined to become our 'guesthouse' for visitors, keep that in mind if you want to visit!, is listed as a "26RKSS" which translated to a 30 foot, not 26, with a rear kitchen and a 'Super Slide' out, 5th wheel trailer. 
I just think he was really lucky to have not damaged his trailer as it was sooo close to the trees on the sides and back where he'd wanted to be. He wouldn't have been able to open his slideout at all had he actually fit there. 
So anyway, we had a nice afternoon drive, it was thunder stormy and as always up in the north, summer is construction season with miles of lane closures and reduced speed limits. But it was fun and we stopped at a market we stop at in the Libby area and bought a few of the great selection of cheeses they stock to take home for taste testing. 

And now today, July 9th, it's going on our first full week of right at 90 degree afternoon temps. If we're lucky this year it will be as it used to be is an 'average' summer with a week or two of around 90 followed by the bulk of summer in the mid 80s. But last summer it wound up being around 90 most of the summer which caused a lot of problems with the explosion of hornets with the hot weather. Not bad bug wise yet, it could easily get that way! 

Till next time, Tad

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