Helena Montana

The last time I posted was of my trip to Palm Springs, Ridgecrest, Death Valley, Las Vegas and Joshua Tree Dec 14 to Jan 15 after which I flew home and had major surgery March 19. I call it throw away cancer as some of us lucky women do just that. I could not make too many plans as I was uncertain of the recovery and when I could ride again. Needless to say I was on the bike 6 weeks later. I went with Karl, Bruce, John and Doug up to Clive where we picked up Gerry and Annie and rode to Bentley and joined the Northern Stars for lunch at the Top Monkey. It was very good and I was especially happy when we stopped in Red Deer at Turple Bros and I got to say hello to my good friend Glen.

The following weekend seeing as how I was good to go. I rode  to a campout in Helena in the pouring rain. I knew once I reached my destination I had a room not a tent to stay in. This is one of Kevin and Annie Huddy's cats. Very laid back. Alistair and Ron also arrived on their motorcycles from Lethbridge. They were going to come in a car but it seemed this crazy woman was coming from Calgary on her motorcycle and they didn't dare. The weekend remained cold and wet and windy and thus a lot of the Missoula crowd came for only a few hours and in cars. Sunday I was going to ride to Philipsburg to the Western Montana BMW meeting but chose to go home and good thing as Kevin and Annie ran into a fair amount of snow on the pass. It was 1C and raining hard through Wolf Creek Pass. But as I neared Calgary I stopped at Aspen Crossing, the sun was shining and I got to say hi to my friends Bill and Lynn from Las Vegas and Phyllis Laing and her family from church . It was a new train inauguration party and I crashed it and got fed as well.

Ron and Alistair. We sure had lots to eat as Annie had prepared for 25 and there were 5 of us there for dinner Friday and 10 on Saturday.

There is quite a story about these rail cars. They were not there a year ago and it appears the railway is stockpiling them in Silver City to the west and they are strung out for miles with all kinds of lovely graffiti on them and when asked will be there til August. What an eyesore. So I am delighted to be working on my Blog again and the next episode will be my trip to Palm Springs and the Mariposa BMW rally. I left 2 days after returning from Helena. Flew down May 19. So will keep that for my next story.