We Made It!!!!!

We stayed at a very nice KOA in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

And we got warm showers!  Yay! 

This was such a wonderful sight. . . 

Lots of activities going on around the Lindstrom farm! 

Fifth Day on the Road

So we made it through the night without a toilet in the motor home!  Yay! 

We woke up in the Walmart campground parking lot and decided that we should give them some business . . . and after all we did deserve some donuts! :-)

After spending the morning on the phone trying to find the right parts to fix our toilet to no avail, we decided it was just something that we couldn't live without!  So we headed to a Camping World and purchased a brand new one!  And took time to install it right there!  

So since then, we are back to having all our problems fixed!  

This is the first time since we pulled away Sunday morning. (Totally unaware of everything that was about to break!)

Lord willing, we will go this final stretch without anything else breaking! 

And tonight we are staying at a KOA so we can get much needed showers!  Yay! 

We made one little stop to let the kids enjoy this tourist attraction in South Dakota . . . 

This . . .

. . . . kinda sums up our week. 😟

Woeful Wednesday . . .

So guess what? We woke up to TWO FLAT tires. . . 

 So  . . . off we went to the Yellowstone service station.  

 And came up with another couple hours of killing time with the kids.  We decided to take a walk toward a nearby lake. 

 We ended up getting lost on our way back to where we were supposed to meet Daddy.  Ha!  So par for the course for this trip!  Thankfully, a nice Yellowstone courtesy shuttle noticed our plight, and gave us a ride back to where we were supposed to be!

After dumping our tanks, we just decided we better head out of the park to try to get our propane line fixed.  (From one of our tires that blew and damaged the propane pipe.)

We saw this guy outside the park . . .walking AWAY from the park. 

 And this mama moose and her baby. . . 

 After making a couple stops, we were blessed to find this place that was able to fix our propane line for us! 

Shortly thereafter, our toilet in the RV stopped functioning properly. 

So we needed to stop for potty breaks. :-( 

And we ended up on a treacherous climb through the Bighorn Mountain Forest.  Apparently, it was the route that was recommended to us by Google Maps for the shortest drive to where we were headed . . . just didn't know that we were in a large motor home! 

We were the only ones on this highway most of the time!  (Hmmmm . . .I wonder why?  I guess most folks knew something that we didn't know!) 

We didn't realize what a steep climb, full of switchbacks and sheer drop offs, it was going to be! We ended up climbing 9,500 feet going about 20 miles per hour!!! We stressed our engine and transmission to the max! And we burned through so much fuel that if it hadn't of been for Bear Lodge Resort at the top having fuel, we might have run out of gas before reaching civilization again!  That was all so stressful.  But then, of course, the drive down was another VERY stressful 20mph with hairpin turns and steep declines.  

We are so thankful that, once again, we were kept safe! 

But didn't make it near as far as we had hoped today!!! 

And now, we're back to a Walmart parking lot, and Daddy is trying to fix the commode!  

What a day!