Martin's Cove Site

Oct 14

We are home and mostly unpacked. The trip home was very eventful. We packed the motorhome on the tenth and secured the bicycles on the rack in front of the motorhome. The Honda was happy to be on the dolly behind us. On schedule we left at 5:30 AM on the eleventh and made good time until,,, just before reaching Casper a large deer raced across the highway into our path. We ran over the deer and the front bicycle which was knocked off. My German racing bike was not recognizable and I tossed it to the side of the road. The deer had its hind legs fractured including the hip and I pulled it off the road as well so it wouldn't be mutilated any further. I even talked to the deer and wanted to know what it was doing on the highway this early in the morning. There is some damage to the motorhome grill and the step is unusable. The dolly lost its hitchpin and a running light on the right front of the fender, and the Honda has some scratches with the front and rear bumpers catching most of the damage as well. We continued on after buying a new hitchpin and securing what was left of the second bike to the broken bike rack. After that we just kept traveling towards Bigfork. This whole episode delayed us for about 2.5 hours. The weather was just great and all the clouds vanished after we crossed from Livingston over to Bozeman. Since the hour was getting late, we stopped and mingled among parked truckers at the Conoco Truck stop for the night. We had a "fancy" dinner at the McDonald which is part of the Rocker facilities and then slept comfy until it was time for us to start again in the morning. About 8:10 AM we arrived in Missoula and fueled the MH at the Costco store. Bernice was so good in making something to eat for us while were on the road. It is great to travel by MH and have a semi kitchen, a bathroom and one can even walk back and forth for excerise. We got home about noon after we picked up our mail at the post office and had them resume delivery. The house looked just as we left it, but the apple trees and plum tree were a total mess. There was one apple left laying on the ground which the bears must have missed or were interupted. It will take a while to prune those trees after removing all the broken off branches.
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