Bozeman, MT

Hyalite Canyon

Palisades Falls

We've spent the week at Bozeman, MT having some truck maintenance taken care of.  Had to extend an extra day to await some parts.  Truck's better, but we didn't solve the annoying wind noise that's recently developed around the trim underneath the windshield wipers.

We took advantage of the time and visited Gallatin National Forest's Hyalite Canyon and Palisade Falls, Missouri Headwaters State Park, and the town of Three Forks.

Headwaters of the Missouri - that's the Missouri straight ahead

We stayed at the Bozeman KOA.  While the staff was great and worked hard to rearrange some reservations so that our trailer didn't need to be moved while the truck was in for service, it's an old KOA and suffers from some serious low voltage problems.  We found their WiFi  service to be poor.  As for Verizon, this is 4G territory and it might as well be 0G.  This is my fourth try to get this blog out today, and I'm having

"Big Mike" of the Museum of the Rockies

to log off and back on to Verizon each time Blogspot software tries to auto-save this blog post.  Phones work, but the smart phone is useless when you try to use any app that needs to talk via the internet.  Consequently, it's not our stinking 4510L MiFi that's giving us the fit.  Just poor wireless internet service.

It also appears that Montana has decided to revert State Highways 84, 85 and US 191 to dirt roads in order to give you that nostalgic, western feel.

Living History Museum

In reality, the state is trying to widen a very heavily used section of these highways.  Most states would build the additional lanes, move traffic to those lanes and refurbish the old lanes.  Not Montana.  Montana digs everything up and lets all this traffic travel through it.  (BTW, I'm now up to loggin on/off the internet 14 times to get the post to auto-save.)

Couldn't afford it when it was new & can't afford it now.

So as far as the roads are concerned, I guess it's "Welcome to the wild west!"  Anyway, we leave for West Glacier, MT tomorrow for a week.  Later, David

(final count: 23 log on/offs to get this thing to publish - way to go Verizon!!!)