Missoula, MT

We’ve been at two family reunions in a week.

Well, kind of…

We drove to Bigfork, Montana, to attend a family reunion last weekend. That family was of Rich’s step grandmother, Allie Mahoney. We only went for one night, but we had a wonderful time visiting with Rich’s aunt, uncle, cousins, and nieces. (We’re not in the picture…)

Last night we stayed in a park at Lolo Hot Springs in Montana. We didn’t have any reservations. We figured if we couldn’t stay there, we would stay in the Walmart parking lot in Missoula, Montana.

The park at Lolo Hot Springs was pretty rough. No sewer hookups, lots of pot holes, and rather scary looking electrical hookups.

While we were driving around the park to get to our site, we passed a rig that had a sign out on it saying the owners’ names and home town.

Amazingly, they were from Fallon, Nevada–Rich’s home tome. Turns out they owned a restaurant there and one was the former county recorder. It truly is a small world.

Kenny and Vicky were at Lolo Hot Springs for a Tripp family reunion. At least 150 family members attended.

While we weren’t a part of the Tripp family reunion, I wanted to be a “Day Tripp-er” because they were having barbecued tri tip roast for dinner that night.

Two of the Tripp ancestors used to own the resort, and the family holds the reunion there every two years. Turns out those ancestors were instrumental in bringing the first luge only run in the U.S. to the area after the 1964 Olympics.

We didn’t crash the reunion to eat tri tip. But we had a wonderful time visiting with some of the Tripp family members who were parked near us.