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Chief Joseph City Park Campground 3rd St SW, Harlowton, Montana - off Hwy 191 Why we chose here? It was between Cody and Great Falls and there is nothing else around Location: Harlowton is a small town off the 191. Located near the fairgrounds Sites: About 20 RV sites and a few tent sites away from the RV sites. I think we had site 12 which was gravel and right next to the water spigot. As we were the only ones there we connected to the water! Pull through sites. Facilities: 30amp, one water spigot for the whole campground, trash disposal, playground, restrooms Groceries: There is a grocery store in town Reservations:  Don't know Cell Coverage / WiFi: Verizon works here Price Paid: $15 for electric, $9 for dry camping and $7 for tents Date of visit: May 2015 Other:  Playground Grill Water - one spigot 30amp for 20 sites Fishing in the river Tent sites Pet friendly The camp host comes around at night to collect the fees. He has cha...

After four months in Canada it is time to move south. Before we even got fifteen minutes down the road Lindsay remembered that he had left the stone guard back at the house. Luckily we had factored in an extra half hour into our travel plans. Any further and we would have left it behind. The Visa system is flawed. When you have a five year visa for the USA it allows you to stay up to six months per year, even all at once. When we first came over we filled in an i94 with our details and this was stapled into our passports, when we left it was taken by the airport or the country you were entering and given back to border control. Now it's electronic. No bits of paper, but what that means is that they only track you when you come into the country, not when you leave. So if you change your mind and leave early, bad luck, your time was allocated and you don't get it back. The first night we stayed at Walmart, we do this for transit stops. No point in paying for an RV park whe...

Little Bighorn Battlefield, Montana Photo courtesy of VisitUSA Driving along the i90, I found a note I wrote last year to remind myself about the Battle of Little Bighorn if we were travelling through Montana. It was on our way and we got there just in time for the morning Ranger talk with his rendition of what happened. He was an ex-history teacher and was very enthusiastic about delivering a history lesson that would keep us all engaged for an hour. In a nutshell, gold was found in the Black Hills which was part of the Indian reservation set up with the Fort Laramie treaty. Gold seekers rushed to the area, contravening the treaty, so the army tried to buy it from the Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho for $6m. The Indians understandably weren’t interested. They wanted to preserve their way of life, which wasn’t living on reservations. The money was taken off the table and they were told to leave anyway or be treated as hostiles. They resisted and a war ensued that ended with Col. C...

We have started moving north and hope to reach Glacier National Park in a few days. We are in our first RV park with hook ups, so the hot water and fridge change from gas to electric. We have our electric fire on; how do they make those flames? Washing is on and dinner is being prepared by my live-in chef. Life is good. After leaving Yellowstone we decided we needed some R&R, life’s tough I know but you can’t just keep going indefinitely. We needed some time out from all the hub hub of buying and setting up our new way of life. Yellowstone just kept up the pace as we felt we needed to be out there every day looking for wildlife. When Lindsay got tired from driving, we found a Montana State park right on Flathead Lake near Big Fork, not far from Kalispell – a large enough town to support a Super Walmart and Costco. The campground was called Wayferers and we lobed in there without a reservation and found a campsite before we asked if it was all right to stay. All ...