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This morning David woke up and
told me that he had heard some noises in the engine compartment at
night. After the morning coffee we checked in there and there was a
cast-away [¨jänes¨] in the engine compartment! It was a
little cute mouse - a deer mouse, Peromyscus
maniculatus.
Here is where we tried out our sun shower. Sun shower is a plastic bag
that you fill with water and leave in the sun. The water warms up and
then you open a little nozzle and gravity pushes the water out.
Usually you hang it on a strong tree branch but we did not have one at
hand so we put the shower on the roof of the bus. Here David is rinsing
himself off, I am already clean.
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After the shower we took off
and headed towards the Lolo pass, the highest pass this far. We drove
higher and higher until there were less trees and it was quite cool
outside.
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By the time we reached the pass
the engine of the bus was quite hot so we had to stop for a while.
David had some chips and salsa and I went to the Visitor Center to look
at books they sold there.
Right after the Visitor Center was the Border of Montana. From then on
the road went down from the mountain with a steep 8% grade.
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John Steinbeck wrote in his
book ¨Travels with Charlie¨ that in Montana the light was
different. He was quite right. About half a century later the skies of
Montana are kind of brighter and clearer than anywhere else where
we´ve been.
<-- Also while in Montana we saw more of the picture-book type
clouds than I can remember from several past years.
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We drove to a town called
Missoula and found the nicest natural food store [pood kus
müüakse peamiselt mahepõllunduse tooteid]. It was the
size of an average Safeway and they had an amazing variety of products.
I saw more than 5 varieties of wheat unground only, 10 varieties of
sunflower seeds and they had so many kinds of organic coffee that it
was really hard to pick what to buy. We bought a ton of food and drove
off toward a campground. The land was green and beautiful.
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We came to a campground in
Salmon Lake State Park and packed out our feast. We had a green salad
with goat cheese cured in wine and some fresh pain au levain [prantsuse
sai, mis on tehtud ilma pärmita] and hummus and a bottle of
organic wine (a wine made without sulfates). From Seattle we had
brought a bottle of really nice rustic unfiltered olive oil from
Andalućia, Spain. I thought that surely there is no-one else camping
who would have such a nice dinner and just then I saw that people next
to us had red wine as well and they even had real wine glasses... But
then they also had a huge RV.
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