Billings was a Bust... almost!

Every place can’t be the best….and Billings wasn’t…. maybe not a complete bust, but we didn’t even take any pictures!  Does that tell you something?!!  We rolled in hoping to join the Fourth celebrations.  We settled in at a KOA with really tight spaces….Dave had to drive around twice to position the RV so that our slides didn’t extend out over the neighbor’s picnic table!!   We had gotten here too late for any Fourth of July parades,  but we were about “paraded out”… as we were looking up directions to the craft fair and fireworks, a  swift wind came up and a sudden driving rain begin to fall.  We understand that is familiar to most of you in North and South Carolina.  This put a damper   literally on our plans, so we  got BBQ in the campground and settled into the fireworks in New York on TV.  Usher really put a different twist on it…. Beautifully coordinated, but not as patriotic as we are used to… guess we are getting to be old fogies…   Just as Dave was going off to bed, I realized that I could see some fireworks out our front door.  Though framed in the trees, they went on for over an hour!! 

The Fifth, brought a day of rest from driving.  After lunch we drove into town and did two breweries in town.  They were good, but nothing really special.   Rents must not be very high in Billings (feels about the size of Greenville), for there are 4 or 5 breweries right down town.  They had a “brewery trolley” like our Gold Rush running between them.  Mike… that could be a project for CCP… but they would have to run out to NODA and out to Old Mecklenburg…. Lol….We decided to end our day with a movie, The Heat, with Melissa McCartney and Sandra Bullock.  Don’t look for it at the Oscars….but it made us laugh. 

Saturday will be another “stop and drop” near Devil’s Tower and then we will meet up with Rob and Karen Monteperto near Custer.  They are full-timing and working in a RV camp 20 mi from Mt. Rushmore and 6 mi from Crazy Horse.  We are looking forward to catching up with them, but I hope they don’t talk Dave into full timing!!

I now have all but 13 license plates... anyone want to play the "what will be the last one" game?...