We finally made it back to the lower 48 today! We drove the 4 hours to Shelby MT enjoying the 4 or 6 lane highway, straight, and smooth roads. The drive was king of boring though as it was just hours of plains with some wheat agriculture along the way. The border crossing was uneventful but took about 30 minutes. There isn’t anything special about Shelby, but I was able to get 50Amp full hook ups reserved in advance. Also, the drive today was exceptionally hazy from the distant forest fire smoke. The smoke haze has really hurt the views ever since entering British Columbia and have continued all the way to Shelby. Today is the best internet service we’ve had since being in Anchorage. While internet was pretty good all the way through Canada the first time, ever since leaving Anchorage we’ve had very little bandwidth. Calgary internet was horrible and seemed to be that way for the local businesses as well. This afternoon I made RV park reservations for nearly every stop along the way home. We will be hitting some popular places in South Dakota, Colorado, and Texas and recent experience showed we needed reservations or we wouldn’t have hookups. Most places the temperatures are high enough now that dry camping is too hot to sleep comfortable and most dry camping locations you can’t run the generator at night. I also got this blog caught up through August 4th.