After a peaceful night – believe it or not with all the trains passing, we both had hot showers because we had plenty of hot water as Dick had turned on the additional diesel heater which gives the hot water a boost.

We left at 10.30am (a really late start for us) once again on a warm and sunny day.  We drove onto highway 15 and headed south.

This is not only farming country with lots of silos and tanks but many farms appear to have their own oil wells

Huge silos for grain storage

Oil well in a farmer's paddock

We pulled up in one of the fields for a hot dog lunch.

We stopped for lunch on the edge of a harvested paddock with huge silos in the background

 It was now surprisingly hot outside, over 80 degrees F so we turned on the air conditioner for the first time.

We drove into Great Falls and dropped down into the city and parked beside Missouri River

Looking scross the Missouri River at Great Falls

We couldn’t see any falls, it appears they were around a bend but saw some Canadian Geese

A family of Canadian geese living on the Missouri River

The temperature was now 83 degrees F and a local told us this was unusually hot for this time of the year. Apparently it had been 32 degrees F last week and snowing!

We drove to the airport and left the Earthroamer at the local FBO (fixed base operator). They kindly drove us around to the airport Terminal and we flew to Denver and onto Wichita.

Pip working on this diary while waiting for the flight to Wichita

  

During the flight we got talking to some young students from Alabama.  We talked about the different gun cultures in our own countries.  One young girl told us proudly how she owned a shotgun.  This reminded us of the notice we had seen on Wilbur O’Brien’s front door in Anchorage.

911 is America's emergency phone number

156km for today – 4256km total

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