White Rabbits and good morning everyone!!!
Hope your day was better than ours!!
We left Havre Wal Mart at around 10 this morning, and drove for 4 ½ hours non stop, at a steady 65 miles per hour, on wonderfully smooth and very often straight for miles roads.
Brilliant.
We then stopped for gas, in Wolf Point, Montana, and made the dreadful mistake of turning off the engine. It seems that our four day stint with Cummins Calgary was a complete waste of time, and we are back to square one, yet again. The engine would not start.
So, on the phone to Cummins of Calgary, Billings, and all other Cummins dealers within 400 miles. Not one of them wanted to help, coz it is Saturday afternoon, a holiday weekend, and you’ll have to get in touch with the offices when they open……….on Tuesday.
We were slightly ticked off.
Wolf Point really is in the middle of nowhere, rolling farms of wheat as far as the eye can see.
However, the people here have hearts of gold.
Marlipops went into the local auto parts store to ask if there was a diesel mechanic around, and two guys overheard, and came to the coach to help. They got on the phone to some of their friends, and another guy dropped what he was doing and came by to help. They impressed us immensely with their complete openness. After the usual “where are you headed to”, that was it. They didn’t ask about our origins, or other stuff, like most folk do, they just tried to help two travelers in distress. Very, very honest and genuine people.
Of course, everything they and we tried did not work, and it was 2 and 1/2 hours later, when the engine fired up. We think there is an electronic problem which either overheats something, or shuts down something for a set period.
After that we drove for another 5 hours for a total mileage of 450 today, which considering the trials and tribulations wasn’t too bad.
The scenery was very samey, just like yesterday, but still incredibly beautiful, with yellow fields, which weren’t supposed to be yellow, but needed rain, as told to us by the guys mentioned above, who have 4000 acres of yellow.!!
We are parked at a weigh station parking lot in North Dakota, but only 12 miles north of South Dakota!
I forgot to mention in yesterday’s travelog about a little town we passed while still in Canada. It was a ½ horse town, that’s how small it was, but had a Lancaster Museum, consisting of a couple of US jet fighters outside a building, which housed a real second world war RAF Lancaster Bomber!!
Fascinating!!
As I proudly said to the Marlipops, this is what WE used to bomb THEIR chip shops!!!!
( Some of you will get it)
Wildlife watch today was some pronghorn antelopes, deer, and a owl, and three dead porkypines.
Sorry, no pix today.
