Comfort Inn Dillon

Old Faithful didn't disappoint.

Saw a beautiful bison at sunset.

Good riding but the traffic made it more exhausting than necessary. Apparently Yellowstone National Park gets 30,000+ visitors PER DAY!

More to come later... just wanted to post pics now while i have high-speed connection.

... and flight. Although the soldiers and civilian volunteers attacked the village while most of the Nez Perce slept, the warriors quickly mounted a resistance and drove the military men to retreat to a wooded hill nearby. The soldiers dug trenches for protection, but the Nez Perce warriors surrounded the fortified hill and held the soldiers there. Meanwhile, the older men, women and children in the camp buried the dead ...

... alot of time outside in the cold, but I enjoyed the lack of "conveniences". It helped me to slow down a bit and realize how much we have around us that gets filled with the day-to-day jobs and responsibilites. We are now headed to Butte, MT and are looking forward to seeing what the Lord has for us in the next couple of days.

... streets and visited buildings like the school house, church, jail, motel and more. Lewsi and Clark had originally passed through this area. Then in July 1862, gold was found in the creeks and the first recorded mining claims were made in Montana Territory. By the spring of 1862 Bannack had a population of 3,000. In the evening I drove and slept in Dillon, Montana.

... have been trying to get up earlier to try and beat some of the heat, that usually means I get on the road by 8 A.M., however that is not a steadfast rule. I am zooming through Montana and working on being in Wyoming in the next few days. I think I can almost see light at the end of the Mountain Climbing tunnel, or perhaps that is the white light people talk about seeing when they are knock knock knockin' on Heaven's door. In any case I am charging towards that light! From New ...

We visited the only military memorial in the world that marks the place of a great defeat. This is Little Bighorn or Custer's last stand. We were treated to an hour long lecture on the battle. The lecture, instead of focusing on Custer, presented the battle from the side of the victors. We will always remember this place as the battle of the Greasy ...

... Bighorn Research Association (YBRA). The camp was closed, but the Dutchers', who live at the base of Mount Maurice, loaned us a key so we did get the opportunity to sample the expansive view of the Palisades from the Fanshawe Lodge Porch. We will always remember the generous hospitality the Ducthers' showed us. We stayed in Red Lodge and enjoyed a dinner at a local pizza place.

... to Kansas City, and turned north and went up through western Iowa, staying the night at a KOA in Onawa. Got a fairly early start the next day (I've lost track of which one) and we made good time until we got around Mitchell, South Dakota where my tranny started slipping. We pulled into a gas station and Dennis found a parts store, put a new filter & fluid in -- and we called it quits for the day, staying at the KOA in Kennebec, SD. I got a chance to catch up on some laundry ...

... vacation this year. I've planned 10 days of travel for us after our summer project is over in the end of June. We'll head to Split, Croatia then ferry it over to Italy...Rome, Siena (during the Palio horse races) Cinque Terre, and finally Venice where we'll catch our flight back to the U.S. Then hopefully we'll hit the Oregon coast with the in-laws before heading back to Bozeman to enjoy the best part of the year in Montana! Should be an adventure....stay tuned.

Hi, we made it out of Las Vegas without losing our shirts and we don't have to hitch hike home,we stayed last nite in Utah a small place called Burley with no internet cafe, that day was long 10 hours so the beer in the room tasted really great! Today was better only 8.5 hrs. drove through snow rain but the roads were good. We are only 3.5 hrs. from Lethbridge and Junes so far the trip has been good bye for now Ron,Erin and Annette.