MISSOULA, MONTANA

We pull into Missoula, Montana and head for Jim and Mary's rv park.  We are staying from July 7th till the 9th.  The rv park is very pretty with lots of green lush grass and beautiful flowers all around.  It does not have a pool or hot tub or playground for that matter.  I had to do wash there and the machines were  $2 each and the driers weren't hot enough.  We did some sightseeing in Missoula, we were pretty close to town, so we went to the Fort Missoula Museum, and Elk Foundation.  We bought a couple of t-shirts at the elk place and I took a few photos. 

The next day we took a ride about 45 minutes away to the Bison National Park and had a great time.  We took the loop going through the park and saw so many bison.  And loads of babies, one mama was crossing the road and the baby decided to nurse.  We couldn't pass her, so we waiting about 10 minutes and the traffic was piling up behind us but who cared.  Then we left the park and stopped at a cute outdoor café right outside the park.  We had wonderful chicken sandwiches and fries and when we pulled in I noticed a corvette just like ours, only blue.  It is very unusual to see corvettes up here with all the dirt roads and such.  The man sitting at the picnic table smiled at me and it was his corvette and he had seen us pull in.  To make a long story short, they are Jerry and Valerie Murphy from Missoula and we joined them for lunch and conversation and had a wonderful time.  We went back to the park to spritz off the car and windshield of the rv because we were going to leave in the morning.  I went to do the laundry and came back to a hullaballou.  Most rv parks have a rule that you can't wash  your car or rv in their park.  Well Joel just spritzed the car to put in in the trailer  clean from all that dust, and then he spritzed the windshield and rubbed it down with a mitt and bucket.  Well, one of the workcampers next to us came out screaming at Joel, "you can't wash your car", and to quote "If I was a cop, I would cuff you".  Joel tried to explain but he wasn't having any of it and then called the manager of the park and she came by as I was getting back with the laundry.  She wouldn't listen either and said that she could evict us by the way we were breaking the rules.  I think they are all nuts, there.  I would never recommend this park to anyone, I would rather stay at Walmart, nuff said.  I am so glad we only took a couple of nites there.  Here are some pics  of where we went. 

 

This is the elk foundation

 

 

 

All these are of the beautiful bison

 

 

Above baby following mama

Below, baby nursing

 

 

Giant bunch of elk antlers