June 22 leaving tornado alley

This morning started with some apprehension; how far should we travel with our fridge not on; I decided after unhooking all cords and hoses to take a closer look. breakers were on, light came on the inverter switch. I thought of my IT guy (Dave) and did the computer thing; I unplugged the inverter cord from what looked initially like a regular plug, that was until I stuck my head underneath to discover it was actually a GFI plug; and guess what? the little tab on the plug was actually in the "kicked" position!! DUUUHHH! I then realized again that the RV mfg's do things which simply confound the normal soul.  I reset the breaker and Vwallah! it works!! This changed our mindset about how far we were willing to go today. We really wanted to get out of tornado alley, so we decided to go FAR, we initially were going to make one stop before Yellowstone Park. Not any more, we targeted an RV park about 20 minutes out from the park. The drive today was now the longest, over 810 KM's; it was also the first time I pulled in to gas up for the second time. The Flying J is a truck stop which makes it very easy for rigs like ours to gas up without worrying about knocking down the big canopy over the pumps. And what a find Caroline made; it is situated along the banks of the Yellowstone river, which we found out is the longest undammed river on the Continental USA. And the park is very nice, a beautiful spot right on the river, and high enough we are not concerned over flooding (the river is running high due to snow pack runoff as well as rains). The Midwest has had an abnormally high amount of rain this year, although we noticed a number of pivots sprinkling fields in Montana. It seems this time of year is when Wyoming and Montana's road works crews have decided to start work on repairing roads. In my humble opinion the roads today were some of the best we've been on; they don't need repair guys!! Every 10 miles signs of "left lane closed ahead" or "right lane closed ahead" had us prepared for slow downs. Seems the locals ignore the slow to 45 MPH as they confirm that there's no work going on!! Only after 3-4 of these slowdowns finally you see one worker repairing one of the bright colored cones on the road.
We pulled into our very nice site and were set up in 5 minutes (thanks Caroline). A nice organic chicken, organic beans, AND organic potato finished off a very nice day, that is until I finish my book tonight.

 very nice roads in South Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana

 our first glimpse of real mountains since we left BC at Christmas! we had just entered Montana

 more nice views and roads

 just outside Billings Montana

 a great RV park in the mountains

 we hired a sous chef this evening, Mademoiselle Caralincha. She is an award winning chef here in Paradise Valley, she cooked up a superb combination of herbs, spices, chicken, beans and roasted potato; topped off with a couple glasses of Cupcake chardonnay (yes that's what its called!) and a Hagen Das for dessert. MMMMMMM!!!! Honestly though, Caroline has been so great in cooking meals on this trip. We do go out an average of once per week but that's at Carolines wish.

 Our view from the deck at sous chef's Caralincha's restaurant