Brydn's 2003 Travel Journal - Montana: Let Her Roll

Brydn's 2003 Travel Journal - Montana: Let Her Roll

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The crew flakes out on loading out the gear. I hear what happened on the back tower with Ashley. My pickup starts dieing on the way out of Helena.

Everything else goes okay. After the race, Ken can't help because he has come down with heat stroke. That leaves me myself to tear down the equipment and store it in the TV office for the truck in the morning. What a bitch. It takes until 12am before I run out of steam. Lock up and go back to Central Motel and sleep good until 7:30am. I go back to pack and to tear down the cameras in the towers. Getting the back tower, I talk with Mr. Coombs about going up the tower because he has his horses on the walker near the ladder. He says that Ashley and her friend were spooking his horses so he told her to slow down coming down the ladder. She goes, "F**k you." He says they don't talk to each other like that and he sprays her with a hose. She goes, "F**k you" again and he squirts her real good with the water hose. I get the camera and transmitter and go to the head-on tower. I get that camera and pack it up. I box up the rest of the gear. This is already 9:30pm so I go to the motel to get my things. The trucking company calls asking directions. Larry is worrying that he can't get his semi onto the mainline. I remind him he said 9am. He agrees to be there at 10:30am because the contract says 9am to 11am. He shows up in the main parking lot. We pack in his truck the 40 pieces of video equipment. It gets shipped off to Missoula. I have to charge my phone which is on one click. I fall asleep in my chair on the roofs production room for about an hour. I go to the coin-op and wash 3 loads of clothes. I go next door to the coin-op car. I tie down my load with 25 feet of rope and the blue tarp. I give Ruthy a wash and pressure wash the bugs out of the radiator. I fill up at the Conoco. I call Megan to let someone know where I'll be. Ruthy loses power getting on Interstate 15 going south up the hill. I stop at the Conoco across from the Air Force Base.