What's a bank without an ATM????

Amazingly, I slept in this morning. As in later than 8:30 a.m! Had coffee, tried out the shower in the motorhome, got dressed, and then we wandered off to downtown Whitefish for breakfast. In Gerry's meanderings around the Web looking for places to stay, he found excellent reviews for the Buffalo Cafe, especially for breakfast. Well, it didn't disappoint. We both ordered "Buffalo Pie," which didn't have any buffalo in it at all! It *was* a nice slice of lean ham, with a healthy serving of hashbrowns, topped with shredded cheddar and two poached eggs. Yum! It's too bad we didn't find this place last night for dinner! The Mackenzie River Pizza was good, but it wasn't quite the "burgers and beer" Gerry and one of his professional 'partners-in-crime' like to indulge in. Ah, well...we're well stocked up, so it's burgers for supper tonight, on the barbecue!

After breakfast, we walked around looking for a bank with an ATM. Figured it was probably a good idea to have some US cash on us, just in case. Um...we walked into three different banks and couldn't find a single ATM in any of them! All three had drive-up windows, but nary a bank machine in sight! Now you may have to be Canadian to really understand the apparent dichotomy in this. A bank with no bank machine? We did find a free-standing (well, built into a wall) ATM down the street outside a casino, but it was out of commission. We finally did find one at the Glacier National bank location on Hwy 93 South. It was a drive-thru too. Never did get out of the car to see if there was actually one in the building.

A bank with no bank machine?????

So we're sitting here this afternoon at our campsite, plotting our next steps as we head towards Reno, Nevada. We're going to stop one night in Grangeville, ID, then on to Caldwell, ID for a night. We figure with a weekend coming up, it's a good idea to get some bookings in so we don't end up parked at a rest stop overnight. We've been there, done that a couple times at Cour d'Alene, WA, and it's not a very good night's sleep!

Of course, wireless and an orange smoothie Breezer (import from home, not the flavoured beer stuff that tries to pass itself off as a cooler here) makes the afternoon very pleasant indeed!