Another long travel day
It was another nice day, but a long one with lots of stops... and it was hot.We first went back to Kalispell. Harry & Sally's parts were in and the refrigerator could be repaired. We drove to Creston RV where Sally (and her laundry) jumped into Speedy. We left harry behind to deal with the repairs while we went into Kalispell to do laundry, this time at Imperial Dry Cleaning & Laundromat, which was directly across from the fairgrounds...our old neighborhood.
Harry met up with us there with their newly fixed (and washed) Roadtrek and we trekked on to Whitefish. We have been to Whitefish before, but H&S had not. It is a much smaller town than Kalispell, but also a ski town. It has a small town feeling, but has all the amenities one would expect at a tourist center.
After a stop at the recycled sporting goods store, we had lunch at the Montana Coffee Roasters. Ellen and Ellen lucked out a bit with lunch. There was a signboard at the register with a question. While paying, I mentioned the answer to the cashier. It turned out the question was a quiz and we got Ellen's coffee free. When our lunch sandwiches came, the server apologized that they had made the wrong sandwich for Ellen. She could start on it though and her correct order would arrive soon, so she got two sandwiches for the price of one (The second is now in our refrigerator).
After lunch we poked around town a bit and then went out to edge of town where the supermarkets are for a bit of reprovisioning.
Having finished with Whitefish it was off to Canada. Since we were on the west side of Glacier and the continental divide, we plotted a new route north. Our original planning was to go to the east side of the park before leaving and go north from there, but the need for various Roadtrek repairs kept us in the West. We were now going north from Whitefish, through the Port of Roosville border crossing into British Columbia. Here US 93 became BC 93 and we followed it as it roughly paralleled the Kootenay River all the way to Radium Hot Springs and the Kootenay National Park, much furthe than we had expected to drive today.
Redstreak campground, part of the national park, is high above the town in open pine woods. It is a nice campground, but they seemingly have a strange site assignment system. They have three classes of campsite, depending on the types of hookups. We chose the no hookups option. They assigned us adjacent sites in an appropriate loop. When we drove into the loop is was virtually empty, except for directly across from our site, where there was another camper in a fifth-wheel RV. An empty campground and they put us next to the only other camper.
Did I mention it was hot? It was 85°F when we pulled in and it didn't seem to be cooling off. Then the next camper pulled in, a big Class C rental RV—right next to us. It was going to be a fitful night.
We were too tired to move even though we briefly contemplated upgrading to an electric site to use the air conditioner...but we are tougher than that. Aren't we?
After a quick dinner we collapsed although it was still quite light. Twilight ends around 11 PM these days.
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