Monday, May 26, 2025
We were pretty exhausted when we arrived in Big Timber Sunday night. It was not yet dark, but it was after 8:30pm, so about a twelve-hour day. On Monday, May 19th we awoke from a great night’s sleep, to a beautiful sunny day even though it required our furnace to warm up BB. It wasn’t until we opened the blinds and drove a few blocks to the Big Timber Bakery that we realized just how beautiful the day really was. It had snowed on the mountain tops overnight and it was a post card morning. Stunning.
Someone online had recommended the Big Timber Bakery, and we are so glad we decided to follow their suggestion. It was a locally owned bakery, the kind where the men in in town gather every morning to solve the problems of the world. We had their classic breakfast and left with a few pastries as well. Everything was cooked just the way we liked it. Highly recommend. Everyone we met in Big Timber was so nice. Our drive through downtown gave us a great impression of the town – so clean and nice murals on many of the walls. It was obvious there had been a lot of effort put into the downtown area.
We departed Big Timber wishing we could spend more time there. It might be someplace where we could spend some summers. However, we had other targets for this trip. It’s a road trip, not a settle down trip so on we went. We continued to drive I-90 across the wide open western states. From Big Timber, Montana to our first “new” state, Idaho We enjoyed this drive but we only stopped to feed BB some gas and rest areas to get our steps, and a stop in St Regis, MT for huckleberry milk shakes. Best we have ever had. We spent the night in the Post Falls Cabela’s parking lot – with permission, of course. Thanks, Cabela’s.
On May 20th we left Cabela’s, first stopping at Camping World in Spokane to refill our propane tank (we are having some mornings down in the upper 30’s) and empty our black and gray tanks. Unfortunately, CW did not have a fresh water fill. We drove on to Yakima, Washington (2nd new state) and stopped at the rest area outside of town, to fill our fresh tank. We thank the state of Washington for having nice, clean, facilities at their rest areas for RVers to use. In Yakima we stopped at Fred Myers. We first learned of Fred Myers on our first Alaska trip. Great store that we wish would come to the SE. We resupplied because our next stop was Mount Ranier and other more remote locations for a few days. After the shopping we settled down in Fred Myers parking lot for the night. Yes, it’s permitted there. We love that we can just stop anywhere in our nimble BB.
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