Ronan MT – We drove through some beautiful country between Custer SD to Ronan MT. We decided that we had the time and took our route through Yellowstone, stop and see Ol’ Faithful. While the drive was nice and interesting, it made for a looooong day. While wandering around FB we saw our friends were driving eastward toward Yellowstone. We made contact and decided to meet up for dinner around West Yellowstone. It was a nice visit, but dark by the time we finished and we still weren’t sure where we were parking for the night. We wandered up the road about 5 miles and decided to call it a night.
All these people…
For a little of this …
In the morning we continued on our way. We went through a beautiful canyon past Lewis & Clark Caverns State Park. It was a little windy as evident by the choppy water. 
We wondered if we should pull over or carry on… We made it to our next destination to visit friends in Ronan MT. The one son worked at the KOA camp in Lake Poulson. We offered to drive him to work one day so that we could make some stops between the 2 towns – including Walmart. We had been seeing many signs along our drive north of Missoula to a store called “Three Dog Down”. Our curiosity was to stop there of course, we do need a new down comforter anyway! The store was named as such because they choose to rate the thickness of the comforters in dog warmth – one dog to three dog. This store was quite the mix of 4 sections. First, of course, being the down comforter and pillow area. Next was a sort of local knick knack area – collectibles, jams, books etc along with this “lip shit”
& “hand shit”.
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Next came the clothing area that had rain gear, cold weather items (of course some down jackets), and t-shirts etc. Last section was the Candy area – with about 50 flavors of taffy along with some other interesting items. While we decided on a comforter that was a dog and a pup in warmth, we looked at and discussed getting a duvet. Since we own a dog, the white won’t stay that way very long! When we asked how long it would take to get one, maybe made to order, the owner suggested we go downstairs to the “factory”! It was a large room just smaller than the stores with 2 sewers in the busy season – which started in another week or so. The seamstress showed us some materials and said she could have it for us the next day. WOW – ok, sold! Rob was a little shocked to see that the duvets cost as much as the comforters (especially since the one we got was on sale)! Later that day, they called to say it was done and that they had loaded the comforter in the duvet for us, which also came with 2 pillow cases. YAY.
Our visit included dinner around the campfire both nights,
sharing life stories and enjoying ourselves – a lot.
We could have easily stayed here much longer with our friends as well as in the area, but life calls for now.