Travel day through ND to MT 7/20/2016

Montana Route 200

Our next door neighbors in the campground were occupying an Adventurer similar to the one we just traded in, and were curious about our newer coach. Ours is unusual because it is a smaller class A (meaning bus configuration), and has multiple slides. Most buses are considerably larger. We met and spoke with this lovely couple and discovered that they were from Connecticut (she, from England originally), and, like us, had just purchased the Adventurer to try out motorhome travel. After the 25 cent tour of our home on wheels, we traded stories about our travel, then said our goodbyes.

The trip to Great Falls, MT was mostly uneventful, with scenery views stretching to the horizon, especially once we left the interstate and set out on Montana Route 200S, a long, straight ribbon of a road that spans the eastern 2/3 of the state. It's a 2-lane road that is only very occasionally punctuated by towns. We did pass a few places where there was serious construction, and had to wait for the flag person to guide us down the road. Elsewhere, we saw pronghorn in the fields, an occasional lonely house, cowboys rounding up cattle, wheat and corn fields, and lots of sky.

Once we arrived at our campground in Great Falls, we had dinner and went for an evening stroll on the campground's nature trail. This path provided expansive views of the mountains beyond the city, the wheat fields and the setting sun illuminated the wildflower-filled meadows around us. Beautiful.