Mary is no longer available for RV traveling, but we remain good friends.
Because we have 5,000+ postings, I’ve invited her to continue posting entries on this blog.
Sadly Mary is struggling with health issues. To see the latest about her situation, click here
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I’m currently in my 24th year of full-time RVing and my lifestyle is changing, For more info click here
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The motorhome is parked at Thousand Trails Soledad Canyon RV Resort in Acton, California. I’m planning to depart here tomorrow..
Since my RVing life is changing (see above), I’m starting to re-visit previously visited places. So rather than constantly re-blogging past entries, I’ve decided to do something different.
Yesterday I drove the motorhome the 114 miles from Stanley, North Dakota to Culbertson, Montana.
We continued traveling along U.S.Highway 2 West.
The day started with a light rain…
As always you may left click upon an image to see an enlarged view and then click once again to see an even larger view…
We decided we wanted to see the Buffalo Trail Museum which meant we had to get off of Highway 2 and get on this rough dirt road for about ten miles…
This is the main drag of Epping, North Dakota…population 100. Several buildings make up the museum…
Heather and Shelly were closing up the museum for the season when we arrived. They graciously opened all of the buildings and showed us around…
Here are some of the photos that I took. You don’t see a bank offering these terms anymore…
I wonder if Bonnie and Clyde ever used this pickup truck…
I thought that this might had been the first-ever travel trailer. Shelly explained it was actually the early school bus. Pulled by a horse and put on a sled during the winter…
This cabin was lived in for many years and moved to this site…
The interior of the cabin…
Another slightly different view. Sleeping quarters were overhead where I did not venture up the steep and narrow steps…
A photo of a photo of long-ago Epping…
A view looking out from the inside of the general store…
The rear end of an old Ford…
To see the other 25 photos that I took, you need to click this Picasa Web Album link… https://picasaweb.google.com/110455945462646142273/BuffaloTrailMuseumEppingNorthDakota
You can read about the Buffalo Trail Museum and Epping by clicking this link… http://www.epping.govoffice.com/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC={A97BC42B-8E53-42C2-8EB9-9EBD3653C0A4}
We continued on passing through Williston, North Dakota which because of the oil boom had many big and noisy trucks. We had been warned about the heavy crime of Williston so we continued on for another 20 miles and crossed into Montana and the Mountain Time Zone leaving the noise and hubbub of the oil boom behind. It was time to get back to the very light traffic mode of Highway 2…
We continued on for another 23 miles and arrived in the small Town of Culbertson, population 734, where we found parking at a Lions Town Park Here I parked at the back of the parking area trying to get a little shade which increased as the afternoon went on…
Here’s the usual dinette window photo…
You can read about Culbertson by clicking their official town website link… http://www.culbertsonmt.com/
Yesterday was a lousy weather day. 94 degrees with high humidity. Today’s forecast is for 81 degrees with a couple of thunderstorms. Tomorrow is forecast 79 degrees.
We’ll continue our westward travel later this morning.
Enjoying Lions Town Parks is another joy in the life of a full-time RVer!
The red dot on the below map shows our approximate location in the State of Montana. You may double left-click the map to make it larger…
TWO FOR THE PRICE OF ONE! MARY WROTE A MANY GREAT BLOGS…SO WHENEVER SHE PUBLISHED A BLOG POSTING THE SAME DAY THAT I DID…YOU WILL BE ABLE TO READ HER BLOG BY CLICKING THE BELOW LINK! DO IT NOW!
https://otrwjam.wordpress.com/2013/09/07/ghost-town-with-a-ghost/
I hope you enjoyed the photos.
Forecast for today is sunny and 68 degrees.
Enjoying 65-75 degree temperatures with low humidity most of the year is a primary joy in the RVing lifestyle!
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving”…Albert Einstein
“Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.” –James Madison
“Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.” —Mark Twain
My current travel rig is a 2006 Fleetwood 26′ Class A Motorhome and a towed 1986 Ford Bronco II, Eddie Bauer Model. This photo was taken in the desert at Slab City near Niland, California…
On October 27, 2012, I created a two-minute video titled America The Beautiful. The music America The Beautiful is by Christopher W. French. The photos, which I randomly selected, are from the states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Montana, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Tennessee, Washington and West Virginia (not shown in that order)…are mine. Yup, That’s me standing in front of the Post Office in Luckenbach, Texas…Y’all!
Click this link to start the video. Make sure you have your speakers turned on and go to full screen asap.
http://youtu.be/FfZUzEB4rM8
If you would like to see my YouTube videos, click this link… http://www.youtube.com/user/JimJ1579/videos
If you have not checked out my Ramblin Man’s Photos Blog, you can do so by clicking this link…http://ramblinmanphotos.wordpress.com/
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http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/panamaorbust
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