{"id":22827,"date":"2026-07-02T20:13:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T02:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/?p=22827"},"modified":"2026-07-02T20:13:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T02:13:30","slug":"missoula-to-dillon-july-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2026\/07\/missoula-to-dillon-july-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Missoula to Dillon: July 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Holy Cow \u2026 lots of memories surfaced on the drive today from Missoula to Dillon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One thing that keeps surprising me is that in the Winnebago, driving mode with slides in was different than parked mode with slides out.&nbsp; In the Bigfoot with no slides, all is the same with the exception of things being stowed for travel:&nbsp; Oscar\u2019s litter box, some kitchen counter items and my dinette charging station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then the RV park:&nbsp; Countryside RV Park.&nbsp; There is another park close to town and I spoke with 2 couples at Missoula who always stay there and say it is nice.&nbsp; It looks to have trees and \u201ctown\u201d is walkable.&nbsp; Countryside is rural \u2026 kind of semi-rural now, but still.&nbsp; It is \u201cBig Sky\u201d!! even with a few more houses around.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was at first thinking that I should have booked at Southside (town adjacent) but now that I am here, I am so happy to be here. It is 4 miles to town on a \u201cfrontage road\u201d which is a 2 lane 60 mph state highway.&nbsp; I drove it from a lovely grocery:&nbsp; Town and Country Foods.&nbsp; They had some great breads including locally made bagels.&nbsp; Also some local made tortilla chips \u2026 tortillas also, but I bought a lot of tortillas in Missoula.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If I can make the trip on my e-bike I might try to stay longer.&nbsp; Right now, I am due to leave Monday the 6th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Photos and more tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And bonus \u2026 Oscar only howled briefly before moving from the little sofa to his cabover bed.&nbsp; Progress!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holy Cow \u2026 lots of memories surfaced on the drive today from Missoula to Dillon. One thing that keeps surprising me is that in the Winnebago, driving mode with slides in was different than parked mode with slides out.&nbsp; In the Bigfoot with no slides, all is the same with the exception of things being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-porch-musings"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22827","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=22827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22828,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22827\/revisions\/22828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}