Day 4
Well today we had breaky in the hotel, got gas and on the road. Our biggest hang up was trying to get out of the hotel. It took 45 minutes to checkout of the hotel.......don't ask...but a real pisser....and no one is in jail!
We hit the road and stopped a couple hours down the road in Circle, Montana for gas. Nice folks and I think we made their day by stopping and chatting a while. The cars tend to draw a crowd.
And customer service, having the windshield cleaned
This is Bill, the owner of the gas station in Rochie's car for a photo op
A couple of axle caps that Bill had hanging in his station
This is Bill Clarke in his favourite postion I think, claims he was fixing his cruise control
We ran down the road heading for Sand Springs but I didn't see it so we kept on running at least until I ran out of gas. I had a couple of gallons with me so we were on our way quickly.
We eventually stopped in Lewistown Montana for lunch and encountered a couple of other challenges. John's truck wouldn't start.....we left it at the gas station and headed for lunch hoping it would start once it was cooled down. We asked the locals for a lunch spot and headed for 4 Aces. On the way into the parking lot Rochie broke his rear shock mount. We went infor lunch and then proceeded to find a place to fix the part.
Just down the road was a muffler shop so Wayne and I stayed there to get his part welded back up and back together while the other went back to take care of John's truck.
Wayne had the part welded and installed and we headed back to find the others. They were standing around waiting for AAA to haul John's truck to Great Falls thinking it was a lift pump problem on his diesel. Just about to load it on the flatbed he tried to start it again and it fired. He filled it up and hasn't had a problem since.
Well today we had breaky in the hotel, got gas and on the road. Our biggest hang up was trying to get out of the hotel. It took 45 minutes to checkout of the hotel.......don't ask...but a real pisser....and no one is in jail!
We hit the road and stopped a couple hours down the road in Circle, Montana for gas. Nice folks and I think we made their day by stopping and chatting a while. The cars tend to draw a crowd.
And customer service, having the windshield cleaned
This is Bill, the owner of the gas station in Rochie's car for a photo op
A couple of axle caps that Bill had hanging in his station
This is Bill Clarke in his favourite postion I think, claims he was fixing his cruise control
We ran down the road heading for Sand Springs but I didn't see it so we kept on running at least until I ran out of gas. I had a couple of gallons with me so we were on our way quickly.
We eventually stopped in Lewistown Montana for lunch and encountered a couple of other challenges. John's truck wouldn't start.....we left it at the gas station and headed for lunch hoping it would start once it was cooled down. We asked the locals for a lunch spot and headed for 4 Aces. On the way into the parking lot Rochie broke his rear shock mount. We went infor lunch and then proceeded to find a place to fix the part.
Just down the road was a muffler shop so Wayne and I stayed there to get his part welded back up and back together while the other went back to take care of John's truck.
Wayne had the part welded and installed and we headed back to find the others. They were standing around waiting for AAA to haul John's truck to Great Falls thinking it was a lift pump problem on his diesel. Just about to load it on the flatbed he tried to start it again and it fired. He filled it up and hasn't had a problem since.
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