Cheap Gas. Beef Jerky And A Handy Dumpster For That Extra Load
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Sitting on the outskirts of downtown St. Maries, the St. Joe Oil Co. is nice quick stop before we head back to the Fountain Bay Homestead.
THE SETUP
St. Joe Oil has the more reasonably gas prices than it's downtown counterparts and so this makes for a more desirable fill-up.
The prices are nowhere near as inexpensive as we found in Montana just the day before. Further, this is really a no-frills sort of stop with a bare-bones mini-mart. They do have a band of beef jerky I like, so I do grab that from time to time.
DUMPSTER
St. Maries has no trash collection to speak of at the outlying residences, which is where Fountain Bay happens to be along the St. Joe River. We have to actually go to the community dumping ground.
But when we are "collecting" garbage in our plastic bag in the truck from our stops at various restaurants, stores, coffee shops, etc., it's nice that we don't have to take this back home, wait for a sufficient size load before we take all of that to the dump. St Joe Oil has a great dumpster on it's premises and while we fill up, it makes for a convenient dumping of the kitchen-size bag that we've collected over a few days.
THE LOWDOWN
Props to St. Joe Oil Co. for having relatively inexpensive gas and other covenient amenities. read more