Rocky Mountain RV

We are in a new park today less than a mile from the North gate to Yellowstone. We arrived intending to stay 2 nights but when we checked in the woman told Bill about a drive close by that is considered the #1 scenic drive in America. Well! We couldn't miss that so he signed up for another night so we can drive it. It's called the Beartooth drive and is highway 212 through the Beartooth/Absaroka Wilderness. Sounds like fun.

It rained today but looks like it is clearing now. We have been so lucky that the rain has come when we weren't trying to look at scenery. It has been in the late evening or when we are parked. All that good clean living is paying off!

Speaking of that...we had a stroke of good luck today! When we were coming through the mountains of Yellowstone we were on a very steep grade and smelled the brakes getting hot. We heard a whistling noise we couldn't find or identify. When we pulled into the RV park the owner came over to talk to Mindy who was in the drivers seat while Bill signed in and he said "Uh oh, you have a problem". Didn't like the sound of that! He said we had a flat tire but it was okay, he had a compressor and would pump the tire up enough for us to get in our spot and there is a tire repair place that would come out and change it and fix it. It turned out that there was nothing wrong with the tire at all. The tire monitor system that we paid big bucks for had failed and the caps on two of the tires had blown a hole which leaked the air out. One front tire flat and the other front tire low! Anyway, the good news is that the tires are fine so all we have to do is get them pumped up a bit more and we are in business. Needless to say, we took the other monitor caps off and will write a nasty email to Madison RV where we bought the system!

We will be here 3 nights and then head for Great Falls. We are still loving this trip (and each other!) This is really small quarters and we are together every minute but it's wonderful. Life is good.