BACK IN OHIO

August 15th, left Great Falls, Montana

Leaving the Montana mountains behind.

First night in a Walmart, still in Montana.
There were six RV's that night.
Think that this might be home made,
but cute enough to look professional.

When we left the next morning, we saw the
other side. Interesting!! To see where they have been.

We spent a second might at a Walmart in North Dakota, and then on to Minnesota. When in Minnesota we stayed a couple nights in the casino RV Park again and this motorhome was across from us. I'd wager they are Canadians.
We met with our son for lunch and a visit. Then we stored the motorhome in the country near there for the coming month and drove by car on to Indiana and Ohio.

We are now back in Ohio but not doing much yet.  On the way from our son in Minnesota, we stopped in Indiana to see Audrey's sister. We also got to see her two daughters, Tina and Debbie, while out thrift shopping for a day and for pizza one evening.  It was a good visit. While there she and I played Five Crowns a lot and we got to view the solar eclipse through Pearl's special glasses. I took my pictures just holding my phone out of the car window.

We have not seen much of our boys since arriving in Ohio, but we did stop into Walmart to get our hug from our grandson while he was working. They are now on vacation so we put off a dinner together until they get back.
We have stopped in to see Gary's sister and will begin to empty her apartment this coming week. It appears, at this time, that she will need to stay in the care facility. This all reminds us how we are getting older too. One certainly never knows what our future holds.
We went to Salem Hills restaurant for lunch with my class of '62. Good to reminisce and also to find out where people are. Tyrone is in from Alabama, while others are from out of town but here in Ohio. Jim is finally retired, with one knee surgery finished and another coming up soon.

Sherry and Pat

Gail and Tyrone

Jim and Gary

Kathy with Carol behind her.
Others on down the table were too busy gabbing.

Patty, John, another Carol and Sherry again.

Gary also went to lunch in Alliance with Jim from SES and our son, Victor. While he went there, he dropped me to have lunch with my scrapbooking friends on Perry St. Only took a picture of Mary Lou who was cleaning, since I seldom get to see her.

Mary Lou

I caught up with laundry when we got to the condo and Gary also got to go out for breakfast this morning with his friend, Rick. Otherwise, we are going to loaf here in the condo for this weekend. 

Hopefully we find a few other things to do while here. Then we will head for Arizona and our winter jobs via Minnesota.

You all take care and enjoy as much summer as you can!!! I know that will be coming to a close soon.

FORT SHAW not far from town, GREAT FALLS, MONTANA

Sunday, August 13th, our last day to run around. We took off for Fort Shaw for a re-enactment that they were having.  Our best point of that tour was the pie we ate!!  I had the flakiest piece of apple that I have ever seen and was it delicious!!!

 I remember the days of clothes made from flour and feed sacks!! Not that many years ago!!!

Commanders house on the Fort.

 

The dresses of by-gone eras. Some were from President's wives.
As we were leaving we saw this lady come in and park. I happened to hear her answer a question asked her about the car.  She has owned it for five years and drive it all the time!!

Time to pack it in to move on. See you all soon.

FORT BENTON, FIRST SETTLEMENT in MONTANA

On to Ft. Benton, which was a traders fort as well as protection from the Indians. Fort Walls as removed, were later reconstructed  as the adobe bricks deteriorated. Fort Walls as removed, were later reconstructed  as the adobe bricks deteriorated. In the Fort one of the buildings had been re-purposed as an Art Museum as inspired to a woman arriving in this area from the east coast in the '90's. It was an awesome collection. An artist's portrayal of travel on the Missouri River. Early form of dress and crockery later manufactured in Red Wing MN. We met this couple while going through the tour and you can see that Gary is definitely not shy. So we had a wonderful sharing of stories of travel. They do not have an RV, but travel by auto, staying in motels. They have been out for four months and come from Delaware.  Gary with Don and Judy from Delaware. Interesting what you see!  This was in the town of Ft. Benton We then stopped at a grocery store and got a sub sandwich and water to share for lunch. Not much else in the town left to see except for the agriculture museum. This museum was a smattering of agriculture, native wildlife, antiques, farming equipment and county historical records of original homesteads.  One of the many boards showing original homestead owners, and current land owners. This was a name common to Gary and his brother's teen years. Interesting! It would have been most helpful if South Dakota would have had this kind of information up in a museum. Would have saved Gary much time in research for his mother's home. It was an original homestead in South Dakota. I had a lot of problems putting this Blog together and tried by copying it to Word and then rewriting. But that did not go easy. Many trial and errors to finally get it back together. I will definitely be more careful in the future. One more Blog to do from Montana. Though we are in Minnesota after driving for three days.