{"id":1568,"date":"2009-01-27T05:08:48","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T12:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromthefrontporch.com\/WPBlog\/?p=1568"},"modified":"2023-09-18T12:12:51","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T19:12:51","slug":"road-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2009\/01\/road-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Road Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"

Five years ago…if you had told me that I would someday own an RV and LOVE rving, I would have said you were nuts.<\/p>\n

I own an RV and I LOVE rving!<\/p>\n

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I even love a 200 mile round trip just to take the beast to a dealer for repair. I don’t love needing the repair, but it was operator error ( Damaging steps <\/a> ) so I can’t blame the rv. I also didn’t “LOVE” the Jeep hookup yesterday as it was 6 below zero while I was doing it. Don’t let that sunshine fool you – it was cold! And things that normally swivel and extend didn’t want to do that. A hammer and a few choice words convinced them otherwise. The good news was that I wasn’t all hot and sweaty after the hookup…<\/p>\n

I packed a lunch, my camera, my laptop – loaded Karl…no steps…I’m glad I’ve kept up with my strength training – and off we went. Destination, Missoula – 100 miles south.<\/p>\n

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The stop light in Bigfork…too bad about that view, huh?<\/p>\n

Although cold, it was clear and sunny and a gorgeous day for the drive which skirts Flathead Lake for 35 miles before going through Polson, Montana and then a beautiful valley with the Mission Mountains to the east and the Bitteroots to the West. <\/p>\n

Between Bigfork and Polson, I stopped at a pullout along the lake to allow 2 following cars to pass and to do a safety check.<\/p>\n

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We continued on. I had planned on a lunch stop south of Ronan, but the pullout there was not plowed. I ended up going all the way to the dealer in Missoula and having lunch in their parking lot. I unhooked the Jeep, checked in with service, transferred computer and camera to the Jeep, took a walk with Karl and then we started back towards home.<\/p>\n

The Missions were beautiful – loaded with snow. A thin cloud layer lay about a third of the way between their jutting peaks and the valley floor. I didn’t stop – there are times when I just like to look.<\/p>\n

**Added 7:30 a.m. 1\/27 – I just visited fellow Montana blogger Montucky <\/a> – he headed to the city yesterday also, albeit from a different direction. His post in the link is a gorgeous capture of the Missions – worth the click!<\/em><\/p>\n

I did stop at a scenic lookout just before Polson. It is not somewhere I’ve ever stopped before, although it has the first view of the lake and the entrance to the Flathead Valley.<\/p>\n

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Home is 39 miles north of Polson. We arrived there in time for a walk before sunset.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Five years ago…if you had told me that I would someday own an RV and LOVE rving, I would have said you were nuts. I own an RV and I LOVE rving! I even love a 200 mile round trip just to take the beast to a dealer for repair. I don’t love needing the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,12,13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-porch-musings","category-montana","category-pets","category-photos","category-rv-notes"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22361,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions\/22361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}