{"id":4626,"date":"2018-08-02T17:00:36","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T00:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/?p=4626"},"modified":"2018-08-02T07:55:02","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T14:55:02","slug":"starting-the-long-trek-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/2018\/08\/02\/starting-the-long-trek-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting the long trek home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We left West Glacier early Wednesday morning for a\u00a0 few nights in Missoula visit with my Niece.\u00a0\u00a0 We were trying for a few days be Missoula is a busy place in the summer and they don&#8217;t have many campgrounds close by.\u00a0\u00a0 We ended up only being able find a single night in a run down Jellystone resort just north of town.<\/p>\n<p>On the way south we drove by one of the prettiest lakes we had seen, and it was very long,\u00a0 we seemed to be driving along it for over a half hour at a good clip.\u00a0\u00a0 It was called Flathead lake.\u00a0\u00a0 We only saw two boats on the whole thing,\u00a0 one sailboat and later a very small boat that looked like a guy was fishing from it.\u00a0\u00a0 Otherwise it was a huge empty lake.<\/p>\n<p>We arrived at Jellystone in the early afternoon and got settled.\u00a0\u00a0 We drove into Missoula to get groceries and made arrangements to get some dinner at the brewery our Niece works at.<\/p>\n<p>Went in and ordered a flight and my favorite was the Scotch Ale.\u00a0\u00a0 We had a boxed dinner from a food truck and had some beers,\u00a0 Kathy had a really good Root Beer,\u00a0 all she needed was some Ice Cream and it would have been a red letter day!<\/p>\n<p>We drove back and began to pack up the coach as I made a reservation for a night in Dillion Montana,\u00a0 probably 150 miles south.\u00a0\u00a0 That was an uneventful drive, but the park was surprisingly nice.\u00a0 It was literally in the middle of no where with a lot of very nice diesel pushers already parked there when we arrived, and quite a few more showed up before 5pm.\u00a0\u00a0 That park was completely full, including a very nice grassy area under some trees with about 5 tents.\u00a0\u00a0 It was called Countryside RV Park south of Dillon Mt.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It was the nicest park around,\u00a0 nice and far from the freeway and railroad tracks that the other two parks were right next to, actually, one of the parks was right in between the tracks and the freeway.<\/p>\n<p>We head for Arco Idaho in the morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We left West Glacier early Wednesday morning for a\u00a0 few nights in Missoula visit with my Niece.\u00a0\u00a0 We were trying for a few days be Missoula is a busy place in the summer and they don&#8217;t have many campgrounds close by.\u00a0\u00a0 We ended up only being able find a single night in a run down &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/2018\/08\/02\/starting-the-long-trek-home\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Starting the long trek home&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-traveling-the-hiways-and-byways"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}