On the Road Report: Five Days With Dad Edition.
Over the past five days I was lucky enough to get my pops out of his office in Bellingham Washington, convince him to drive 12 hours and close to 700 miles with a few pounds of smoked salmon and a couple growlers for a weeks vacation checking out some Montana freestone streams. Considering he and my mom are busy with their own business and the shop is in full swing here, we were both pretty lucky to find some time in our schedules that matched up. He crushed the 12 hour drive in record time, more like 10, even after stopping in Missoula to load up on some big bugs from our buddies at Kingfisher Fly Shop (thanks guys) and after a good nights rest, we hooked up the raft and got back on the road. The plan was to get four solid days of floating and car camping in before I had to get back to the shop to give Jason a break from one of our busier weeks on the books. Things didn’t turn out quite as planned, but looking back on it, I think we’re both glad they didn’t.