Friday, August 19th, we left our spot at Lakeside and moved to Mountain Meadows RV Park, Corem, Montana.  It was a short and easy drive.  We stopped for gas and some spare ignition parts and still got here before check-out time and had to wait a few minutes.  We plan to be here for two nights before heading to Canada.

The spare ignition parts are something that I have meant to buy and keep available but never got around to.  Now, with the engine quitting in the middle of the highway a couple of times, if there is any possibility that these problems are ignition related I want to be able to fix them.  One of these parts, the coil, did break once on a Christmas Day – Barbie quit in the middle of an intersection and we had to be towed to a WalMart parking lot – and we couldn’t fix it until the following day.  If that happens again we’ll have our own part.

The weather was so beautiful today.  Perfect temperature and blue skies.  As soon as we got to our RV park and hooked up, we left for Glacier.  We went to Lake McDonald and had a great lunch at the Lodge.  An emu burger!  Definitely a first – very good, tender, and tasty but still a little strange to be eating an emu.   The Lodge is pretty old but the grounds are beautiful and there are tons of flowers everywhere.  We took a boat ride that was recommended by friends.  I hate to say it but we wouldn’t recommend it – maybe our particular Park Ranger was bad – because it was boring.  Only the first 12 people aboard get to sit on the open top so we were stuck underneath in the cabin.  Not the greatest!  Neither would we recommend one of the Red Bus tours – it looks interesting and fun but you are stuck in one of those cars and on their schedule for hours.  Tomorrow we will take the shuttle and do a little light hiking.