Driving, driving and more driving

Normally, when we travel we drive for a day and stop for a couple of days before moving on again. Well, we decided to get through the state of Montana with only overnight stops. Montana is a huge state and it took as four days to get from Dickinson, ND to Coeur D'Alene, ID.

I am not used to driving 200+ miles a day for four days in a row. We got lucky every day to pull into a campground every time before it started raining and thundering (it did that every day). The highway was not to bad at all and we found out in Bozeman that we are really 13' 2" tall, since the bridge clearance to the campground was 13' 3" and we still have the air conditioners and the satellite dish on the roof. I held my breath the whole time he was under that bridge.

As we were driving west in Montana we started climbing into the Rockies again. This is the first time our truck is pulling 20000 lbs over the Rockies. Last time we went over, we had the Excel, which was about 4000 lbs less than the Teton that Doug is pulling now. I am very proud of Doug and the truck, since they did just fine getting up and down all these passes we had to navigate. And guess what!!! The Rockies in Montana are so beautiful. It is so green with all these pine trees covering the mountains and I was glad that my sense of appreciation for the beautiful has not dulled as I had feared in Dickinson.

We finally pulled into Coeur D'Alene on Wednesday and decided to stay for a week to take a break and check out the area.