We are back in the States!!!!

We made it to Bozeman, Montana today after driving from Fort Macleod, Alberta. We left around 7:30 this am after telling our friends goodbye. The drive today was so pretty and it was a GREAT feeling to be back in the US!!!! When the border patrol guard told us "Welcome home"....it was a great feeling!!!!

The drive south today from Great Falls was so pretty. It had a few canyons that wound around the Missouri River and down the mountain range. After we got to Helena we took a "side" highway 287.... it was a great FLAT road! It was a divided highway for most of the way and just great! We found our campground just as it began to rain big time this afternoon. So we just waited in the truck for it to stop in about 10 minutes! It has been cool this evening. The campground is called Bear Canyon Campground and it about 6 miles east of Bozeman but it is really nice. We have full hookups and a great view of the valley below us. We ate out this evening at Applebee's for supper. Haven't been to Applebee's all summer!

We will call in the morning to make an appt. for the camper to get the slide out motor fixed and then hopefully we will be on our way. If it is almost noon or so we may just stay here another day. We are not sure how far we will get tomorrow.

We have seen some gorgeous scenery of Upper North America but this is just so pretty with the trees and valley and fields below. We made a trip to Walmart today and we were just in heaven!!!! The prices were so low! hahaha!!!! After paying $6.49 for a chunk of cheese we got some today for $2.82!!!! Amazing!!!! Bananas were only 58 cents a lb!!!!! not 79 or 99 cents a pound!!! We are really going to appreciate the "lower prices" we haven't had for a couple of months! The wifi here is probably not the best but we are also using our Alltel internet now and we are zipping on this laptop! Are we back in "civilization"???? :) You really do take things for granted and appreciate the things you have!

It was wonderful talking to our kids today and catching up with them after a week of not talking to them. We should be back in Topeka by early next week.

So until next time!
BJ