On our way to Texas

Thursday, 20th March
Picked up trailer in Calgary eventually after all paperwork sorted and travelled down to within 10 miles of  American border, arrived at midnight, a place called milk river, we were so tired.  Up at 5am to cross border control, more paperwork! Border control very strange, two buildings seperated by the road, they took our passports and truck docs from 1st, then we had to park up and walk to 2nd dodging the vechicals coming in and out, of which our passports etc was passed magically, then back to 1st to pick everything up again. We had our fingerprints and eye scan taken of which we had to pay 6$ each, this lasts 3 months.
Then it was meat inspection, a real joke, couldnt believe the state of the place, run down and actually looked derelect, no overalls, men wearing jeans or tracksuit bottoms inspecting the meat in the trailer. Its put me off beef for a while!
Now in Montana, a big dark cloud over us but can see bright blue sky ahead.  Landscape bleak, all the trees look dead, can still see the Rockies in the distance, dave said they run down to Colorado.  Sporadic dwellings, very run down all seem to have heaps of scrap cars around. We`ve just been past a place called Dead Mans Basin, that sounds about right.
We hav`nt unpacked yet, still wearing the same clothes as yesterday, i`v managed to brush my teeth and spit it out the window, obviously it will get better as we get organised. Dave running on adrenelin as its all new again. We have 3 days to get to Texas which is 2000 miles. Drove past a city called Billings, set down in a valley, took maddys photo for facebook, we were on a cliff edge, a very beautiful setting.  Landscape then became all fur trees and snow as we travelled over foothills of the Rockies called crow country into Wyoming. Arrived at port of entry at the Wyoming border, we had to present truck docs but guess what the permit was missing!  we then had to wait for the office to fax doc over, by now its getting late in the day.
On to Casper through the snow covered mountains where we parked up overnight at flying J truckstop.  

Friday 21st March
Truck wont start! just as well we made it to a truck stop last night.  We`ve had showers and organised the the cab while waiting for breakdown to arrive, we have heating as the truck has a tripac (a seperate generator) so we can boil the kettle etc.  Its been snowing and very sunny now, weve got 600 miles to do today and heading for Amarillo, i didnt realise it was a place just a song by tony christie!  
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