Friday, July 31, 2009

July 30, 2009

Cherries and Batteries

We left West Glacier and headed south along the east side of Flathead Lake.  Flathead Lake is very large (dimensions measured in bunches of miles, several times larger than Lake Tahoe) and offers a wide variety of recreation.  There is one other thing that stands out – cherries.  The conditions of the area must be perfect for growing them.  Every piece of level and not so level ground along the lake has a cherry tree on it it seems.  On the east side that takes some doing as the mountains are almost right next to the lake but if there is some level space there is a cherry orchard.  All of the orchards are small individual family operations.  Cherry stands every mile it seemed.  In one spot we saw three stands on one side of the road and two on the other all within 40 yards of each other, each run by a different family.  The stands are not tents or quickly thrown together sheds.  They are solid buildings that are there for the long haul.

In Missoula we gassed up at Costco and did some shopping.  Then on to Les Schwab to have brakes checked and also batteries.  The house batteries (lights, fans, etc) ran dry at some point and we pretty much cooked them.  Amazingly they still functioned sort of but I knew we were on very borrowed time.  One of the four was marginal.  The other three were totally shot.  We replaced them all.  Now the inverter should work for more than fifteen minutes.  Brakes were fine.

Got out of town and went a bit further south to a nice RV park that says it is on a creek.  That is its’ name – Creekside, but I have not seen a creek yet.  Haven’t looked.



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