Missoula Montana

There were many short thunderstorms yesterday afternoon and by evening is continued raining. When we woke this morning it was still raining. I thought, maybe I will have to drive in the rain this time. It’s been so long since I used my windshield wipers, I didn’t even know if they worked. Well by the time we crawled out of bed, it stopped raining. We hit the road with cloudy skies. As we were leaving the park Susan spotted 2 foxes romping in the field across the street. That was kind of cool.

As we headed on down the road I could see the rain falling up ahead and hoped we would go around it. Well our luck ran out. We hit a hailstorm. Running down the interstate at 60+ with hail hitting the windshield is pretty scary. Good thing they make them things strong. It was short lived fortunately and the rest of the drive was OK. The wipers did work by the way.

We are in Missoula for tonight. I usually don’t make reservations but since it is the 4th of July weekend I did. Good thing since when I approached the door of the campground office I spotted a sign saying Sorry Campground Full Tonight. Tomorrow we will be parked at our friend’s house in Kalispell so we will be good for the rest of the weekend. It looks like the weather is going to get better for a while. We have been very fortunate that until today, all the thunder, lightning, and rain has been at night which makes sleeping real nice and driving safe.