As we headed down the road, we saw a sign for the National Historic Site of the Golden Spike. Doug remembered that another time when we were out here, we were going to go see it, but it was 80 miles (each way) out of the way. This time it was only 26 each way and we had plenty of time.
On May 10, 1869, the Union and Central Pacific Railroads joined their rails at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory , finally linking our country from east to west. During the ceremony, 4 special spikes were presented one of which was the famous Golden Spike.
There are replicas of the two locomotives, the Jupiter and the 119.
They are beautiful and full of many details. The location is out in the sticks and on our way there, we wondered if there would be anyone else there. To our surprise, when we pulled into the parking lot, there were about 8 cars, 3 motorcycles and a MH. The National Park Ranger told us that they get about 50,000 visitors a year.
The exit where we will take the MH for the oil change had a coin-op RV wash so we were able to get the Montana grasshopper remains off of us. Man, they sure have a lot of grasshoppers in Montana. There is also an RV park at the same exit, only about 4 blocks from the diesel shop. At first, we thought "oh no, what are we getting ourselves into?" but it turns out it is a very nice, clean park with free cable and WI-FI. What more could we ask for? It's called Century RV Park and it's a great place to stop for one night.
"Decaf? No, it's dangerous to dilute my caffeine stream." ~Author Unknown. Now for that cup of full strength coffee.
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