Day 3: Billings, Montana

Friends,

We left the Yogi Bear campground and moved up the road to Billings, Montana. Not much to report since we spent most of the day driving. Driving so far has been pretty good going. The weather has been great and I've gotten used to driving the car with the trailer.

There have been big forest fires in Idaho so the western region of Montana that we've stayed at for the past couple of days has an ashy haze in the air. Our cars started to get the build up and 5 minutes outside and you can taste it in the mouth.

While riding in the car, Joshua was noticing the trees which are burnt and him and I were having a discussion of how that happens. Around this time we passed some black cows grazing on the side of the road and in a serious tone Joshua said, "Daddy, someone burnt the cows two!" You gotta love it!

Write you tomorrow,

~Jason~

Day 2: Jellystone Campground Missoula, Montana

Friends,

On day 2, we decided to take a short trip from where we stopped the first night, somewhere in Montana, to the town of Missoula, Montana. We decided to stay at a Yogi Bear Campground (officially called Jellystone Campground) in Missoula. Jellystone's have a high standard for managing campgrounds but this was the nicest campground we have stayed at to date. The following is a little video tour of our cabin. Please see our photo album on Furtak.net to see more pictures of our camping in Missoula.

In addition to enjoying the cabin we swam in the pool, attended an ice cream social, played on the playground and enjoyed the wireless internet access. Equally as entertaining, was the fact that I brought our TV into the cabin and hooked up our DVR which had our previously recorded TV programs. As a result, we were able to enjoy our TV programming as if we still had the Dish setup.

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See you tomorrow,

~Jason~

Day 1: Furtak's Leave Washington

Friends,

We decided to get on the road and leave Washington for Georgia two days early. This is the start of our cross country blog. I'm going to do my best to leave you a daily blog of our progress.

What amazed me most about going from west Washington in the Seattle area to east Washington in the Spokane area was how drastically the landscape changed once we cross the Cascades. The landscape went from lush evergreens mountains to dry trees less mountains. In a lot of ways, east Washington reminded me of California.

We spent the last month getting rid of 98% of what we own. In this trailer and the two cars is what we have left. There's something liberating about having our possessions down to this size. This is the first time that we've made a move without loading the largest size moving truck.

The U-Haul company were the ones that advised loading all the heavy stuff towards the hitch. What do you think?

Come back tomorrow for the next update.

~Jason~

Furtak's Fish Video @ Mill Pond - Auburn, WA

Today we decided to fish at Mill Pond in Auburn, Washington. Each of the kids caught fish which included Crappie and Cat Fish. Here's a little video of our fishing trip. Enjoy!