Headed off to Montana early Thursday (7-2) morning, (longest car ever)! jk
My parents, brother, and I traveled to Montana/Wyoming when I was 13 and from what I remember, was not as long. Except for the fact I had to sit in the back with my brother...who poked me whenever I fell asleep.
We stopped a million times for gas, and finally got there at 7 pm.
Ate spaghetti and meatballs, hung out with billions of mosquitoes, and went to sleep.
The next day, Nathan, Kevin, Jake, and I went to Dillion to get some fireworks.
For being a state where it's legal to have huge flying fireworks, they didn't have many cakes, just breaks which were still cool.
I got this one called Pink Diamonds, which said it shot up 50 feet, but it turned out to be a fountain... BOOOO
But they were still really fun.
We went out to Virginia City too, which was a neat old town and they had lots of wooden signs with funny sayings on them. and went on a tour of the town.
It was a really relaxing and fun family reunion in Twin Bridges.
Nathan got to shoot lots of guns, we rode 110cc's (motorcycles) which were fun, until I was falling over. haha.
I wish I took more pictures but I didn't.
Me and Nathan will for sure be going back during hunting season to shoot us up some deers and all sorts of the other red meat.
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Oh wait. This vacation doesn't end there...
After the fireworks, Hoa and Thuy + kids, were gonna leave because they were worried about their motor home breaking down. Me and Nathan went with to help drive and ya know, just in case something were to happen.
I stayed up till around 3 am with Hoa to keep him awake then I fell asleep, Nathan doesnt sleep in cars, especially if someone else is driving so he laid on a bed until I fell asleep.
Nathan woke me to up because we had stopped to 'use the restroom'.
I looked our the door and we were in front of a HOUSE!
I said, we can't pee here, people live there!
To which Hoa says, OH don't worry it's an abandoned town.
And Nathan tried to tell me it was a Rec Center...yeah right.
Great. talk about creepy.
Very reminiscent of the Hills Have Eyes (don't EVER see that movie. you will have nightmares or radiated, nuclear bomb, incestual people).
There were old cars and boarded up houses, in the dark!
(p.s. I'm really afraid of the dark...so it might not sound very scary to others).
On the road we went, and around 7 am, everyone was waking up.
Nathan was driving and Leann, Dillion, and I were watching a movie in the back.
And the front and back windows are covered in smoke, and we hear huge chunks of something falling on the road.
Nathan pulled over and we were stuck.
Good thing we were at least in Oregon.
Called AAA, and waited for the tow truck and another semi with a truck on the back.
The Phams took the truck and followed the semi to Hermiston to stay until Nic was passing through and picked them up.
Me and Nathan got to go with the tow truck guy in his semi to drop the motor home off at a repair shop in Pendleton.
Interesting ride. Never been inside a semi-truck.
The driver had his 2 year old son with him, who knew every kind of truck there is.
Finally got to Pendelton, where it was 100+ degrees outside.
We hadn't ate yet or really drank anything. I had some water left, we rationed...ha
We decided we wouldn't actually die if we walked up too a hamburger place and ate some food.
It was next to a gas station, with A/C so we got some drinks in there and walked back to the motor home.
We passed a river and wanted so badly to just jump in, but we didn't.
We opened the door and windows and fell asleep for a little bit but it was so hot, it didn't last long.
We walked back up to the gas station, got gatorades, and sat there for an hour looking at magazines and auto traders.
*By the way, we totally looked like we should have been missing 5 teeth and that we just crawled out from our cave*Walked back down and FINALLY, after being stranded for 5+ hours, salvation came. haha
Kevin, Rich, and Paula came and we shuttled everything in the motor home to the trailer on the truck, hopped in, and headed for home.
We thought we were gonna be stuck again when going over hood river, and we had 1 mile left to go before we ran out of gas, when luckily there was a station with about .25 miles left.
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Left at 11 PM Saturday and got home 1030 PM Sunday.
Uh, I think next time I might fly. Or drive a car with nothing attatched to it.
