Sharp's Travels

We woke to the wind rocking the 5th wheel. We were in for another day of high winds. We pulled out by the campground office to get internet service and send e-mails.

Hwy 89 is a very curvy and Montana has an open range policy. You go around a corner and there will be 8 or 10 cows standing along the road. They started running and luckily didn’t run out in front of us. They were all along the highway.

Gay was checking out the rear view mirror and saw that our awning had blown off and was dragging on the highway. It had come apart at the top and the wind caught it and that’s all it took to rip it right off. We stopped and he took the remainder of it off. It was one more things to add to the problem list.

The roads were pretty good today and traffic was very light. We spotted a bunch of deer---a buck, doe and fawns. We didn’t see them quick enough for pictures.

We stopped for lunch just before we turned on Hwy 287. Now we are encircled on three sides by mountains.

We saw a group of antelope and more deer.

We pulled into our campground in Helena, Mt. about 3pm. We didn’t even get set up and our neighbors across the street came over to see our truck and 5th wheel. They have a big truck too, so we went to check their truck and 5th wheel out. We sat down and had a few drinks with them. It was nice trading stories.

About 5:30pm we headed out Hwy we looking for Frontier Town. We were there 22 years ago and wanted to check it out again. It was real neat---it had saddles for bar stools. We finally found it and it was all closed up. So sad—it was really a neat place. We turned around and headed back to town and stopped at Applebee’s for supper.

For pictures of the day see album: St Mary to Helena 8-28-08