Woke from a decent nights sleep to discover that I had landed the van loaders job, cool. Today we were faced with our first looong drive. Approx 450 miles, our destination Elkhorn Ranch, Rock creek (30 miles east of Masula). This took us through Washington state, Idaho and into Montana. The section from Spokane to Montana was very nice. To pass the time we played a card game called donkey, I am sure Kate knew how to cheat but did not tell anyone. We stopped to shop and buy more beer, as of course we had drunk most of it last night. We tried to stop in Spokane for lunch but after a lap of the town we found the park, but no tables and chairs, so we went elsewhere.
We got to the campground and our sites were deep in the woods, but our nearest neighbours were a long way away. Lucky that. So here is where we got to sample group A's cooking skills. The plan was chicken and rice, sound simple right : ) We started drinking planning to have a few before dinner. It ended up taking 2 lots of rice to get it and I had finished that bottle of wine that I bought in Canada before dinner was served. So everyone was suitably lubricated, proved by the fact that we were all dancing on the van. Dinner was eaten, the fire was started and we just continued on drinking. Somehow that bottle of J.D went down fast. The rest of the night is a bit fuzzy but there was something about Kangaroos and Koalas. I ended the night by dragging the old sleeping bag into the middle of the felid and remember falling asleep under the Montana stars.
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