Back to Missoula

Captains Log June 12 - Time  to head  south back  to Missoula for 3 nights.   Kam sat up front with me and got the birds eye view  as she and Dan  are looking at RV’s maybe next summer.  It seemed to take us forever to get to Missoula and it was only supposed to be about 2 hours!

Bill misunderstood what site we were assigned and had me park in D5 and then Kam saw the

One of the old buildings

map and it was D6.  He went up to see if we could stay in D5 as we had our slides out and utilities hooked up but is was no.  Timing is everything and we no longer got moved to the next space when our neighbor pulled in to D5. 

The church

Once we had some lunch we headed into Missoula to Ft. Missoula.  It was very nice out for a change and we enjoyed walking the grounds and thoroughly enjoyed the museum.  It covered the use of the fort when it was first established in 1877 through WWII when it was an internment camp of Japanese citizens relocated from California.  Some of that was very sad as they were separated from their families and most lost their businesses.  There are some buildings not from the original fort but from the same time period that have been moved to the grounds.  One is a tiny church and another was an one room school house.

There was also a train section that has an old engine and train

Train Station

station and other train related things.  Bill took my photo with the train to send our friend Bruce who loves trains.  All in all we got some good walking in and enjoyed spending time back in time!!

We crossed town to the base of the “M” mountain.  The M is for the University of Montana and the grounds are at the base of the mountain.  The river runs along one side.  The campus is beautiful and we drove around it as Bill wanted to see the football stadium.  At the mountain base there are 2 trails going up to the “M”.  One is switchbacks directly in front of the “M” and the other is more strait up and rugged along the side.  You could see quite a few tiny people up at the “M”.

Inside the school 

There was no cooking going to happen so we finally decided to go to Famous Dave’s, which is mostly a BBQ place.  Bill and I have eaten at one before.  It was not bad!  I enjoyed my brisket salad but I think Kam and Bill were not overly impressed with their food.  It’s nothing like 4 Rivers at home!

It was a full day and time to relax back at the RV