August 25, 2012
Walmart, Billings Montana
After dinner last night we made our way along a lighted
path to an amphitheatre and watched a great show performed by a husband and
wife duo.
They played several instruments, sang and narrated the settling of the west.
It got really windy and cold. I kept waking up during the night because my toes were cold but I didn’t want to get out of bed to get socks. We were up early because we wanted to get set to leave as soon as we returned from a special Ranger narrated hike that was planned.
We set off to meet up with the group but when we got to the appointed place there wasn’t anyone there except the ranger. We waited a few minutes to see if anyone else would show up but no one did so we had the great opportunity to have a personal hike with the ranger. He is a botanist so we learned a great deal about the many different plants along the trail.
They played several instruments, sang and narrated the settling of the west.
It got really windy and cold. I kept waking up during the night because my toes were cold but I didn’t want to get out of bed to get socks. We were up early because we wanted to get set to leave as soon as we returned from a special Ranger narrated hike that was planned.
We set off to meet up with the group but when we got to the appointed place there wasn’t anyone there except the ranger. We waited a few minutes to see if anyone else would show up but no one did so we had the great opportunity to have a personal hike with the ranger. He is a botanist so we learned a great deal about the many different plants along the trail.
We got back to our campsite at noon and left shortly
after that. We weren’t sure where we
were going to stay. I entered the town
near the entrance to Yellowstone that we wanted to go to in the GPS and saw
that we had 480 miles to go. We planned
on traveling to a half way point and start looking for a place to stay. We ended up driving 300 to Billings, MT. We called a couple of RV camps and were
quoted prices as high as $47 so we decided to try our first night of Walmart
camping. After entering Walmart into the
GPS we saw there was one only a couple of miles off the interstate. When we arrived we went into the store and
informed the manager we were going to be staying overnight. We asked if it was alright for us to open our
kitchen slide and she told us we could open all our slides, put out a welcome
mat and make ourselves at home.
Awesome.
There was another Camper already settled in the area the manager directed us to so we picked out a spot and set up. We took a ride to Home Depot and had a quick bite to eat at Wendy’s. Back home, Monte plugged in our mini inverter and we were able to watch a little TV.
There was another Camper already settled in the area the manager directed us to so we picked out a spot and set up. We took a ride to Home Depot and had a quick bite to eat at Wendy’s. Back home, Monte plugged in our mini inverter and we were able to watch a little TV.
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