Hi everyone! It's Thursday, September 2nd and we have been on the road now for 13 days.Currently we are just outside Rapid City, SD....

We've covered some territory since my last posting. Let's see if I can get you all caught up.We traveled East from Deer Lodge and had a much needed down day in Columbus, MT. ...and a much needed trek to the nearest Wal-Mart for an extra blanket as the temperature plummeted to 40 degrees.


 US National Park - Last Stand Hill (formerly known as Custer's Last Stand at Little Bighorn)....renamed to honor the Native Americans who actually won this battle.

Part of the Indian Memorial

US 7th Calvary graves - Custer's is the stone w/black

Last Stand Hill Park

Onto Hardin, MT and two days of visiting Custer's Last Battle @ Big Horn and Pomprey's Pillar, the sight of the only known existence of Wm. Clark - Lewis & Clark's Expedition....he left his signature in the pillar, now protected behind a brass and glass case. Originally the railroad placed a iron grill over it (1880's)

 

 

Both Wyoming & Montana are roughedly beautiful, but Wyoming takes the cake for weird...although being the Big Sky country that is Montana....look at these tires? And where in the world is the piece of machinery that they belong to? This was the second of two trucks passing us on I-94

Once in Wyoming we stopped to buy groceries and found in the beverage aisle....who thinks of this stuff...is it a bunch of tasters sitting around and one scratches his head and says "I know, I know...this tastes just like a pig's ass! Let's call this batch that"....I mean really? And this informative piece of information was located on the Women's Restroom entry at Devil's Tower....seriously, are the people of this state carrying weapons?

We spent most of the 1st at Mount Rushmore....amazing is all I can say... then we went to Custer State Park so as to drive "Needles Highway"...glorious and a bit unnerving as they had 4 one way tunnels and 3 corkscrew roads....

 Above: Eye of the Needle and on the right....happy Deals in front of the Presidents.

We've seen a lot of wildlife, from pronghorns (antelope), to ground squirrels, llamas, deer, and of course horses and cows...so far our favorites have been:

 

Daryl, and Darold and my other brother Darryl

Prairie Dog Love

 

 Prairie dogs  that live on the grounds of Devil's Tower proper and are NOT afraid of the humans

 

....and of course your average Bison herd walking down the wrong side of the road..! There were 3 of them, albeit a bit spaced out so I couldn't get them all in the photo...

King of the Road

I'll post some more of our photos in the next few days....we're having fun-are you?