Sunday June 18th 2017

Yesterday ended with improving weather. There was an actual visible sunset at 9:40 last night. It looked like the forecast for warmer and sunnier weather today was on track. Unfortunately something went wrong. I heard rain on the roof overnight and woke up to very dark skies caused by a thick low cloud layer.

One of the mountains around the campground with the clouds below the peak.

My rough plan for the day was touring to the south about fifty miles in the Flathead Lake area. After yesterday’s washed out pictures, I wanted sunshine to get good pictures of the lake and surrounding area. I decided to wait until the sun came out. It still hasn’t happened as I write this blog entry. There are a couple of hours until official sunset, but the dark clouds don’t provide a great deal of hope for sun today.

The weather has been pretty bad since I left Yellowstone a week and a half ago. Only one day has been sunny, but it was cold and windy. The forecast is for temperatures near 80 by Wednesday of this week so there is hope. The only problem is I’m not sure I can believe the forecasters.

I spent most of the day watching the US Open Golf on television interspersed with walks around the campground. The golf kept my attention even though I’d only heard of a handful of the players before. Most of the elite golfers didn’t make the cut.

One of several rosebushes in full bloom.

One of many planted flower beds in the resort.

This West Glacier KOA is very nicely landscaped campground. Each of the sites has nice green grass and there are planted flower beds at most of the intersections. The sites have reasonable separation and the utilities are located well. Overall it is a very nice resort style campground. It wasn’t full over the weekend which is surprising. They had a fathers day special of pay one night get one night free going on. That probably tells you the place is too expensive, but you’re paying for the location.

The dark clouds I wrote about three paragraphs above just turned into rain. I hope mother nature gets it out of her system before tomorrow. I want to do some more touring in nice weather.

This concludes another blog entry about the weather. When I don’t do anything during the day it is usually because of the weather so that’s often all I can think to write about. I remain committed to writing a blog entry for every day of my Rambling Road Trip.