Hello everyone, can't hardly believe that I am posting for night number 2 - how time passes.
We had a very rushed and tiresome Christmas but over the month of December we were able to fit both families and even some friends in, and had a wonderful time doing so. I worked nights over Christmas and Colin tended to the family get togethers.
We spent the 27th doing the final packing and arranging for our winter and left the morning of the 28th very exhausted. We have had a relatively uneventful trip but have learned a few very key things on our journeys. We traveled approx 800km yesterday and made it to Helena Montanan. it was this leg of our journey that we learned our first two lessons.
#1 bikes on a bike rack do not travel well attached to the bumper of a fifth wheel. we found ourselves just passed Oyen with Colin sweating bullets watching the bikes diligently swing wildly back on forth from the rear view mirror. We then were stopped under a street light in Acadia Valley removing the bikes from the partly dismantled bike rack, taking the tires off the bikes and trying desperately to prop them in a safe spot for the rest of the journey.
#2 One who is working in the U.S. can not pass the border before 10 days prior to there start date - I start on the 12th and we were five days early. This translated into Colin trying to calm me down at the border crossing while waiting for the managers ruling relating to the same. . . . they let us through I am sure only on Gods good graces (thanks again).
It was at the border that we found ourselves amongst the huge caravan of snowbird's heading south - each looking at us twice as they drove passed I am sure thinking "are they not a little young"!!!!
Helena we stopped and settled into a hotel were we promptly ate supper and crashed in front of the t.v.
This a.m. we started off and have traveled about 1000km. The lessons we learned today are
#4 even though sunny and warm Monita pass can be grueling - with solid ice covered roads and blowing snow. Again we found ourselves in a long line of snowbirds - we stayed behind the caravan allowing there experience guide us.
#5 Superstore walmarts and flying J fuel/service plazas ROCK and they are EVERYWHERE even the smallest towns.
#6 We are no longer called a travel fifthwheel but a "RIG"!! Doesn't that sound important, I assure we are not but its fun for now.
Well now we reside in Elko Nevada in a snow covered R.V. lot - drinking a $4 bottle of wine (yes thats right booze and fuel - SUPER CHEAP!!!) and you can get booze at the gas station - LOL - this could be fun!
Anyway ta ta for now. Keep posted for the Zimmer Rig adventures!!!
