Day 14

Up at 7:45, packed camp, poured granola and on the road by 8:45am to Helena.  

Stopped at Walmart, Home Depot, Lowes, and Capital Sports (gear store).  

I bought a couple of great headbands at the gear store!  I’ve taken to wearing headbands/bandanas a lot on this trip.  When my hair gets dirty and nasty, it shows most right around my face.  A bandana covers up the fact that I haven’t washed my hair in a week and does the very practical job of keeping hair out of my face and keeping a knot from forming at the back of my neck from wearing a had and scarf when my hair isn’t pinned up.  I haven’t worn headbands in the past because they always slipped off the back of my head.  I’ve found, however, that a couple of bobby pins slipped in from the back, plus a looser headband completely do the trick.  My new favorite thing.  

Bail top bottles at the heath food store; $6
For that, I'll buy a bottle of vodka for $12.  :)

Day out on the town!

We got to Moose Creek Campground around 6:30.  

Made hash and steamed cabbage/broccoli stems.  Using up those stems!  Waste not, not want not!  Nobody noticed last time!  I had bought some fresh ginger because Mom wanted some.  It hasn’t gotten used and was starting to look sad, so some of it went in the hash along with a good dose of Dave Beiler’s garlic.  That ought to keep us well for a while!

Jeremiah started experiment with heating water for the showing bag using a coil of copper set in the gassification stove underneath whatever I was cooking.  I didn’t get picture because it was too dark, but it followed the usual R&D process.  Some what entertaining and a lot feeling sorry for him and worrying he was going to burn himself.  A few things got melted and there were a few unexpected laws of physics that came into play.  :)  I have faith he’ll get it all figured out and it’ll be great!  In the meantime, he’s still tweaking.

He did end up with a bag of hot shower water that got donated to Joshua since somehow he managed to not get a shower at the motel.  Apparently the bag hung in a tree out in the wilderness, all soaped up, and could only get a trickle out of the hose.  Later, it was discover that a rock was lodged in the opening of the hosing.  :P

We broke the $2 thermometer we bought this morning before we got to use it.  In bed at 10 pm.

2,420 miles in.