Monday, September 30, 2019

The end of September already, and wow, did we get out of Montana just in time!

We made our run into Bozeman before we left Ennis, and found a new food genre for us, Korean.  And we really enjoyed it.  We love Asian food, Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai, Japanese, etc.  They are similar yet unique in their own right.
Our homemade Kimchi appetizer

Korean short ribs!

A noodle soup with seafood and chicken!
And just so you don't think we eat all our meals out, here is an example of a delicious home cooked dinner!
Scallops, sautéed spinach with baby potatoes!  Yummy!

We enjoyed Ennis for our last day, and got ready to head a bit south to Henry's Lake State Park.
The setting sun reflecting off the hills

Some unsettled weather

Good bye Ennis, we'll be back
We have stayed at Henry's Lake before always with a reservation, but this time of the year they go to walk-in only.  We weren't sure what to expect, and since they only have a few full hook up sites, we made sure we had empty tanks.  Sure enough even in the middle of the week, at the end of September, all the full hook up sites were taken, so we looked around and found what turned out to be even a better site than we had hoped.  We pulled in instead of backed in and had a terrific view of the lake and the mountains out our front window!
Right out our front window!

Another perspective 
We only spent a few nights there before heading down to Colorado.  We did a long day into Vernal, UT at the Dinosaurland KOA for one night, and I will have to interject here one of our pet peeves.  It seems there is an unusual phenomenon occurring more and more over the last couple years, and that is lighting.  When I say lighting I mean mostly lights from RV's that run all night long, maybe LED rope lighting laid out all around the unit, and if really lucky changes colors all night long, or maybe a big long awning LED rope, bright white bathing everything and everyone within a mile of the unit, or best of all an intense bright white LED flood light for a porch light!  It seems more and more people for some unknown reason come out "camping" to enjoy nature and the outside and then light up their unit, and every unit within a mile of them all night long!  WHY???  Are they frightened, are they scaring off rodents, what the hell are they doing?  And amazingly it seems just as they turn them on they go inside, shut their door, pull all their blinds down tight and still leave the damn lights on all night long!  Do you get the impression Jan and I don't like this, you're right.  And then to compound this, more and more campgrounds are lighting the area up, I can see a light by a bath house, but do you really need street lights like a subdivision in the middle of nowhere?  Well, our night in Vernal had it all, streetlight right outside our bedroom window and an intensely bright white awning light left on all night by our neighbors who were cuddled up inside the whole time!  Okay, I'm done ranting.

We then went farther south into Colorado, first of all over Teton Pass, over 10% grades, it's a serious pass, then by Jackson, WY and south we went.
The clouds on Teton Pass

Looking way, way down

Coming out near Jackson


We turned another milestone in our coach on this leg of our trip, 150,000 miles.
Hopefully we'll get another 150,000 miles out of her
We crossed the dam at Flaming Gorge, got a quick glimpse of the lake on our way.
Flaming Gorge
So now we are in Colorado, and so glad especially after reading the reports of the incredible amount of snow they have gotten in Montana, setting new records of snow and cold, damn global warming!  So here we are, one more travel day to Durango where we'll spend all of October.  I'll leave you with a view from our present campground.
Aaaaah

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