see a good description here of the Mini Motorhome based on the US Toyota Hilux that we have just bought in Montana...
www.tundraheadquarters.com/blog/the-toyota-mini-motorhome...
Now tagged MatildaToy on Instagram which is not as useful as
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All very pleased and excited about it and keen to do some small trips...
See some photos nearby, where we plan to go again!
Anybody who either owns or wants to own a Toyhome (as we often refer to them) MUST join the Yahoo group for other owners – TONS of useful info and discussions:
autos.groups.yahoo.com/.....a-campers/
and also
autos.groups.yahoo.com/.....ckcampers/
beta.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/toyota-campers/info?refe...
Forum for RVs forums.woodalls.com/
and from the CMCA site forum.cmca.net.au/Topic9674.aspx
Some vehicle details..
Auto Trans.
e22 engine??
Super Longwheelbase see image elsewhere specs.
2.5m high incl air con!
Dune stripe Sierra BRW Awning
Canopy cut length 88 hemed
Handwound awning, new from Kalispell dealer.
CrestonRV
Checked and serviced by Kalispell Toyota.
Has car radio and all for off grid camping...
Water heater gas only
Atwood GG-7 6 gal
Dated 1/14/02
Input point from mains hose
Max 150psi
Onboard water tank under dining table.
You can see the water level and pump.
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One of the rest areas like Red Rock Point on the road up to Logan Pass visitor centre car park, which was full of the summer crowds. We continued on down in Matilda past Oberlin Bend to St. Mary Visitor Center.
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Collecting a few supplies and the kids saying Cheerio to Mum as we head off for Glacier National Park.
Tagged #MatildaTasca on Instagram and a couple of places here...
#matildaiTasca
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We had our first night in the B Group site near the loos and camp kitchen area closer to the lake, but the kids were keen to stay another night so as this spot was booked, we had to move over to the A Group closer to the pool and next to Chuck in his 10 cylinder RV...
We had a nice campsite fire with some firewood we bought for from the camp hosts for $4 or so.
Chuck loaned us a small axe to split off some kindling for Lucy to build a teepee of sticks to start the fire with much advice from the boys and small sticks collected around the site.
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Arrived here on 11/09/16 and reserved a campsite, then headed up Mt St Helens see Michelin atlas and Galileo for place and times. The dates in the atlas were a day under. Incorrect!
See map and camp details here.. maps.roadtrippers.com/us/toutle-wa/camping-rv/kid-valley-...
The river became an exit for millions of tons of ash and glacier melt water after the 1980 eruption on Mt St Helen's.
A trip well worth the 45mi winding gentle road up to the look outs and information stations. The first one is by Forestry, and covers the re-vegetation of the 100s of square miles of devastated forested slopes and mountains. They have some excellent movies and history of the eruptions, which are expanded upon in impressive stereophonic sound effects at the Johnston Ridge interpretive centre.
You all know the story, but is impressive to go over the details of rescues, geology, the three landslides that triggered the eruption and the reforestation and re-colonising of the blast areas by vegetation and wildlife
See ... en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_St._Helens
Just found the Nat. Geo. map, "The Making of America", Pacific Northwest, published with the magazine of August 1986, it shows the exploration and Indian Tribal areas of the region we covered in Matilda... I should have taken it with us! It was beside the bed ready to read before we left!
The map would have been a good reference to have as we travelled.
We didn't have a lot of time at information centres and roadside historic viewpoints. Many were tricky to swerve off a fast road with a huge RV on our rear or a semi coming the other way.
The map shows all the points of interest we passed as we followed the main rail link from Kalispell, Thompson Falls, Sandpoint, Spokane, Moses Lake, Yakima, Mt. St Helens, Portland, Walla Walla, Lewiston, the Snake River, Kamiah, the Nez Perce, over the Bitterroot Range to Missoula and Whitefish.
Found this image harvested on www.djibnet.com/photo/wa/campsite-at-kid-valley-west-of-m...
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