We all felt like our stay in West Glacier, Montana was one of the highlights of our trip. We took our time this morning and meandered around the gorgeous campground one last time. We made some final purchases in the campground store including huckleberry hot chocolate mix and huckleberry gummy bears. Then we stopped in at the campgrounds Lazy Bear Cafe to get some coffee for today's ride.
We broke down camp, hitched and pulled out of the campground at 11:15am. Our next major destination was Yellowstone National Park but we planned to break up the drive with a one night stopover in Deer Lodge, Montana. We stopped for gas twice on this 215 mile drive and pulled up to the Indian Creek Campground around 3:45pm.
While Adam was setting up camp he realized something wasn’t quite right. He noticed water was dripping from the bottom of the camper in multiple locations, something that he has never seen occur before. In an effort to try and find the source of the water he checked all the pipes exposed on the inside of the camper in the bathroom and kitchen but there was no sign of a leak. Unfortunately the undercarriage is completely sealed so there is no easy way to slide under the camper and inspect. He emptied everything out of the basement (a storage compartment below the living space). There was a lot of water puddled in here and some of our things got wet.
Not sure what else to do at this point Adam went over to the office to see if the woman working there knew of any local mobile RV repair companies. She let Adam know there was a maintenance workamper living at the campground who might be able to help. Workamping is when someone lives and works at a campground for a season usually receiving a free campsite, free utilities and additional wages.
Thankfully, this kind man was home and very willing to help us out. Since everything in an RV is sealed it is extremely difficult to find what is leaking and from where. This poor man and Adam worked tirelessly together taking many panels off. At times his entire body was inside of our basement (he was over 6 feet tall) with just his feet hanging out. Thankfully they found a loose coupling that was the source of our problem. The fix was easy but locating the leak took a couple hours. His hourly rate was way too reasonable for all that he did but he refused to take anything more. We were eternally grateful for his assistance. Many things could have failed in the camper and we would have lived with it ... water was not one of them.
There were a few things in this area we wanted to do but with this delay, unfortunately, would not be able. About 30 minutes after the leak was fixed we heard a knock on the door. It was a nice surprise to see our kind repairman again. He brought back information about a local park and stayed to talk with us, sharing his memories about visiting the park with his children.
Once he left we started talking about dinner. When we arrived at this campground we noticed there was a diner on the highway directly in front of this campground and decided that would be perfect. An adorable Corgi named Sammy was living in an RV close to our site and caught our attention as we were walking over to the diner. We visited with Sammy and his lovely owner for quite some time.
As we rounded the corner to the 4B’s Restaurant we all started cracking up at the billboard. It was advertising Lucky Lil’s Casino. Lily could not believe her nickname was the same as a casino. (Last year in kindergarten Lily won a prize available to anyone who attended a school program at Barnes and Noble. That same day her stick was picked for the student in her class to go to the big prize box. From that point on her teacher lovingly referred to her as Lucky Lil.)
Our dinner was also comical. This restaurant was out of almost everything we tried to order. The waitress kept telling us how she was having an extremely bad day so we told her about the leak we just had. We managed to find something to eat. After dinner we walked around the gas station store looking at their merchandise and souvenirs before heading back to the RV for the night.
