Brydn's 2003 Travel Journal - Montana: Welcome to Montana

Brydn's 2003 Travel Journal - Montana: Welcome to Montana

The First Pages


I set up the video production equipment for horse racing in Helena, Montana. I spend the next couple week days between races camping at Moose Creek.

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535 5th, Helena, Montana. Look for a square, two story house near the grade school, across from the alley, and across the river from town (Railroad Station).

(1) Clancy - Park lake.
(2) Deer Lodge
(3) Bolder - Veterans Park.
(4) Garrison - Bernie & Sharon's Riverfront Park. $18.

07/08/2003, 08:07 PM, Mountain Time. On Going Journal. Park Lake, Clancy, Montana.
One (1) week of catching up to do. This journal will describe the places I'm at or have been. I will also put in it lyrics, poems, odes, and jingles to use for music. (If music is included it will be in the "red" manuscript book). I haven't entered anything yet because I'm trying to figure out where I am and where I'm going to be. I stay last night at Moose Creek Campgrounds, west of Helena. I leave for Great Falls, Montana, Sunday night about 11:00 PM. After setting up, I stay working late in the production room at the Fairground's Grand Stand. I have to re-wire the dub decks. Dave, who initially wires them, has a bird's nest of wires. At races the next day, the lead deck in the stream of three changes channel during race six. I have to unplug everything and hook up the master deck solo. I dub off two copy orders. I leave them for Ken to mail off. By the time I have finished with the production gear, they've locked up the fair grounds gates. I slip my journal, cellphone and bag between the fence and climb over it to get to my truck. I don't know where to go. The map shows a rest area South on I-15, toward Helena. I drive there in the dark. I stop in Ulm to check that my load's tied down. I fall asleep at the rest area in the front seat of my Datsun pick up. It's just like having no where to go in my of Ford Fairmont but smaller in size and less leg room. I wake up at sunrise. I use the rest stop rest room. It has the weather station playing over an intercom in the rest room. I ask the attendant, who happens to be there, if it was on all the time. He says, "Yeah." I don't notice at night, but I have been passing very beautiful out cropping along the highway. Most of Montana's speed limits are 70 MPH and 75 MPH. Ruthy goes that fast down hill but it seems hard for her to keep up at that pace. I buy a tank of gas at Conoco in East Helena and drive to Moose Creek. About Fort Harrison, my truck stalls. I pull into an aquatic park. I scrap off the build up on the distributer cap with my pocket knife. This had happened with Andy in Salem, Oregon, going from Grants Pass to Portland a couple weeks ago.