{"id":22977,"date":"2026-07-26T17:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T23:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/?p=22977"},"modified":"2026-07-27T07:17:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T13:17:42","slug":"lake-views-7-26-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2026\/07\/lake-views-7-26-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake views: 7\/26\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I love my spot and this RV park. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

No frills, nothing fancy but a great location above the west shore of Flathead Lake and super nice owner-operators as well as some RV neighbors that have been coming here for over 30 years!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is great walking for Emmett and although a lot of up and down, I think I will get my workouts with no issue this week!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, still a lot of smoke plus heat. NOAA is not optimistic about smoke clearing or heat abating. We’ll see about weather after I return to Columbia Falls. I would love to come back for 2-3-4 weeks and if I come back for 2 plus weeks it would be worth getting the Yukon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Getting ahead of myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I aim to enjoy this week despite heat and smoke. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today was typical “day after move” slows. Even with a short drive there is still the unhook\/rehook stuff on a move day which means more in and out of motorhome as well as time outside in the heat on arrival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Travel stress: getting Yukon to storage which was less stress than usual as I was able to park it outside for this one week vs backing into my locker which has about 2 inches clearance front and back when it is in and I have to fold the passenger mirror to allow more driver side room for access. I back in so that if it won’t start, the battery is accessible, but it makes for a tricky maneuver. I am on a wait list for covered outdoor parking vs the locker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, Oscar and Emmett. They have figured out the “moves” for travel days. But, I tell them also: “Today is a travel day”. I suppose they pick up on my “stress” as well as Oscar particularly does not like when we roll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This travel day, I had a bit of anxiousness about access to the RV park which according to texts I was sent, cautioned against mapping software AND I knew a smallish back in site was waiting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All that worry for no reason! Short day, Oscar and Emmett did fine with 1 howling episode from Oscar. GPS was right on and there was excellent signage before and in the RV park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

THEN!!! Owner operators are husband and wife. Husband was in a cart and took me to my site, then expertly backed me in AND helped me level. This is not really unusual in a somewhat tricky park like this, but what a contrast from last week!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had a simple dinner “from the freezer” and an early night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bed in Wild Thing II is excellent! And even with heat and running A\/C all night … I use some small fans on either side of the bed … airflow is great. When it cools enough to have windows open … even better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At this site, on the highway, with the location above the highway and the quiet at night … lovely!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am just ready to finish my supper preparations. I cooked some chicken thighs in the Instant Pot earlier this afternoon.. I am getting ready to cook a chicken-broccoli-rice side dish in a small electric skillet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mostly, I cook and eat as I did at the house. Sourdough has been abandoned … mostly because it is challenging to deal with the mess and rv discarding cleanup water outside (water and flour = glue!) I do have yeast and that involves less mess so will buy sourdough when I can, but even home made yeast items taste better to me than store bought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ok … some photos of the site:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Above is out the windshield this morning … zoomed in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Site from behind and above. The park is terraced with 3 rows of rv sites so everyone has a view out the front. Class A’s and trailers with front windows benefit most for inside views, but everyone’s outside area has a lake view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Not too bad to live here for a week … even with the smoke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love my spot and this RV park. No frills, nothing fancy but a great location above the west shore of Flathead Lake and super nice owner-operators as well as some RV neighbors that have been coming here for over 30 years!! There is great walking for Emmett and although a lot of up and […]<\/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-22977","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\/22977","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=22977"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22987,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22977\/revisions\/22987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}