We arrived in Missoula the Thursday afternoon before my niece’s wedding. I had gotten a last-minute reservation at the local KOA, so I was a bit apprehensive about the site we would get. A couple weeks prior they had no openings for our stay; so when I called back and they had something, I was very happy. We had originally thought we might stay at the ranch or at the local hip-camp. When we drove over to the ranch to help set up for the next day’s event, I was surprised by the 10-ton bridge weight limit I would have had to cross. We are close to 20 tons…
It turned out we really lucked out and the KOA gave us a very nice campsite with a very big tree for shade!
We had been struggling with our toad’s A/C only blowing cold air from the defroster and floor vents for about a year since last year’s Mississippi River trip. When originally calling around to get it fixed, the dealers were talking thousands of dollars in repairs as the whole dashboard needed to be removed to get to the system to fix it.
Recently I had re-posted my question about the issue on a Chevy forum, and someone answered that my issue was a bit different than what the Chevy dealers were quoting; that the Mode Door Actuator was the problem and it was a lot simpler to repair than what the Chevy dealers were telling me about.
I then watched a Youtube Video on the repair and knew that was my issue with the A/C. I must have called 20 places while in Wyoming and Colorado and was only hearing they had no openings for weeks. I finally decided to call the Chevy dealer in Missoula a few weeks prior to getting there, and the service gal told me they could do it, but had no openings till the week after we would be leaving Missoula. Then she said if I brought it in early the day after we arrived, she would squeeze it in. YES!
That morning I brought it in and they fixed it in a few hours. Two weeks later and we still have air coming out of the dash instead of the defroster!! Wow. It’s been really hot this summer and it took a long time for the car to cool off with the cold air blowing everywhere but at you!
We drove over to help with anything we could for the wedding on Friday afternoon, mainly moving things like beverages, chairs and coolers around the barn and adding ice to the coolers.
The wedding was a fantastic event, and the weather totally cooperated. I did learn something new at the event. I asked someone why all the cowboys where wearing sunglasses and was told, no one wants to see cowboys crying. 🙂
The next day we went with Chris and Shelly for lunch at Notorious P.I.G. restaurant downtown in his rented model Y Tesla. It’s a pretty nice car. I really liked the display showing all the cars around you. That may be a feature of the self-driving mode which it had. Chris said he used that during the drive from CDA to Missoula the day prior.
We headed over after lunch on Sunday to help with the cleanup. There was a lot to move from the barn to the house and a small truckload of borrowed tables/chairs and cooler to go back to Julia’s work. After that we went back to the bus and passed out.
The rest of the time in Missoula we mostly visited with the family that was still there and cleaned the inside and outside of the bus.
On Thursday morning we headed northwest to CDA to visit with the new in-laws.
