Day 78 – 2014-08-05, Tuesday – Victor, ID to Bozeman, MT

Another travel day! Back-to-backs are not a lot of fun, but we have a method now – don’t set up completely. Makes take-down so much faster.

First thing, it’s sprinkling outside, after raining all night. Looks bad out there, but it really isn’t, so take-down is a piece of cake. Get out of the park at 9:04, just in time to hit the bike shop. We get there and they take The Bear’s wheel in right away. Fitzgerald’s Bicycles – great folks, great place! They also have an in-house coffee bar, so we get some java and look around while they get her fixed up.

By 9:43, we’re back on the road! Raining off and on now, but again, the roads are not slick, so we can make good time, but here’s what it looked like outside – this is where the “Amber waves of grain” line comes from:

1 - Amber waves of grain

Yes, it’s crooked – hard to take great photos when you mainly have to drive the rig. Anyway, a bit later the rain really came down, and it was like this:

2 - Rainy roads

Fun times!

We kinda have to go through West Yellowstone, so, what to do? Well, we’ll be stopping by the Slippery Otter to have a pizza for lunch, of course! We need to see if it’s still the best pizza we’ve ever had. It is:

3 - Supreme pizza

That’s two thirds of the Supreme. Won’t last much longer. To drink, The Bear had a Pigs Ass Porter, which was pretty good, though a wee bit light for what I wanted, so I had the Black Ghost Oatmeal Stout. Not Guinness, but pretty good:

4 - Brewskis

Here’s their logo inside the pub:

5 - Slippery Otter Pub

After lunch, less than 100 miles to Bozeman, and actually, we’re just outside Bozeman, on the way in, so we really only have like 85 miles to go. Cloudy mountains:

6 - Cloudy mountains

And other beautiful scenery:

7 - Scenery

Yeah, still wet, but it looks to be drying out. We’re going back to a KoA we stayed in last year – a bit of trepidation, because last year they were adding on, and rebuilding all kinds of stuff. The Bear looked online, and a lot of folks are still complaining. We shall see!

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