My Life and Travels
This morning I went out to shovel the knee high snow drift in front of the house.
I found snow inside the garage.
The wind blow snow through the gap between the roof and the wall. We had lot of wind in the 60’s with gusts to 80. Snow fall was only a couple of inches, Brian 8 inches on Saturday and maybe a foot total today.
Benny looking for that perfect spot.
Last travel day for Fall fishing trip.
I have also gone back and added some posts for September.
Trip Wrap Up
Motorhome 1597 miles
Pickup 336 miles
Gas Prices
High $2.69 Enumclaw, WA
Low $2.12 Post Falls, Id on trip back
Avg $2.31
Gas 288.9 gallons (coach only)
Generator 103 hours
Propane 26 gallons, if we would have gone south we would use 8 gallons
in 3 months.
Fish
33 to net
49 on but not to net
Travel comparison 2019 to 2020
Miles
2019: 10978
2020: 5098
Gas
2019: 1690 gallons
2020: 807 gallons
Nights
2019: 216
2020: 167
I have been watching the weather so we don’t get stuck on this side of the continental divide in the snow. The divide is 6400 feet and is really steep.
Last night on the news they were talking about cold and snow moving in Sunday night. We decided to leave Friday morning and this would get us across the divide before Saturday afternoon and into warming tempertures.
The Forest Service campground at this rest stop closed on September 30th.
We were able to get the lane next to the grass (the red line) so we could have the bedroom slide out for the night. All the points are there because I forgot to turn the InReach off.
The flies have moved into the area. We have not had flies until the last couple of days. I think Jean got a dozen today.
Fall is here and everything is starting to turn.
We have a moose run between us and the river this morning.
I was reading on my Ipad and by the time I got it up to take pictures he had run up river a couple of campsites and then took off across the river.
We are in site 1 and the internet is much better than site 2. Actually have a connection for several hours most mornings.
Fishing was good today 12 to the net and 6 more on, all Mountain Whitefish.
Several 18 inches.
Moving day again, drove up to Palisades Campground and got site 1. Then into town for gas, propane, dump, food and laundry. We have been running the generator quite a bit so we needed to get gas.
It was cold this morning, here is the ice I got off the large slide topper this morning.
We have been in Montana since September 1, we didn’t have any internet during the first two weeks and I have been fishing most of my time fishing every day and not spending time writing here.
Today I spent a bunch of time updating the first week of this trip while in Washington on the American River with the Garcia’s and Brian. With the slow internet we have here at Ruby Creek it took me 45 minutes to get the InReach maps from the first day of travel and the drive to Montana.
I was unable to fish today because of the wind, blowing in the 20’s all day.
We have gotten 8 mice while we’ve been here, must be time to move.
While we were here at Ruby Creek I went for walks up on the bench above the river.
Today was rainy and very windy so I spent the day tying flies.
This is site 15 at Ruby Creek BLM Campground.