Bear Lodge Motel
Travel Blogs from Sundance
Stories of the Wild West and Devil's Tower
Leaving Yellowstone through the East Entrance, you descend about 2000 feet to the valley, through a beautiful mountain pass...and then it's pretty much flat most of the way across Wyoming, with the exception of a very long 60-mile pass heading to the Northeast corner, toward Devil's Tower.
Our first stop on this leg was in Cody, Wyoming, named after Buffalo Bill Cody. Cody calls itself the "rodeo capitol of the world", though I can't vouch for that. We stopped at an ...
Onward and Eastward
... right clothes, and perhaps her sleeping bag wasn't quite up to the cold, but at about 2am I asked her if she was ok... "no! I'm freezing!" was the answer. So, she hopped into our sleeping bag and snuggled up for a very peaceful, warm, but 'cosy' couple of hours 'til 7am. After our refreshing lake sojourn we headed up to Mount Rushmore the next morning for a real US experience. About 3 million visitors each year and we figured over 80% are ...
Wyoming, Mon Dieu, ya donc ben des motos
Nous n'arrêtions pas de se faire dépasser par des motos lors de notre route de YellowStone vers Sundance au Wyoming. Nous avons finalement compris lorsque la dame du camping nous a demandé "êtes-vous ici pour le Bike Rally ?". Quel rally ... Celui de Sturgiss qui attire 500,000 (oui, un demi million) de motocycliste à chaque année. Ça commence aujourd'hui."
La ...
Last full day in Wyoming
... Jane. The road takes you up through the Wyoming side of the Black Hills and of course it would go on into Hills when you to to Deadwood. I left the Stagecoach road to stay in Sundance WY for a last night in WY. Tomorrow I will start for home. Of course I'm not going the shortest way possible. I'll be heading north so I can explore the northern part of Michigan. I figure this might be the only way I'll get a chance to see it.
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Driving
... the perfect stopping point to let the kids get their energies out. And it would have been free with our MOS membership. The kids again really didn't care, and they insisted we not stop anywhere, they just wanted to push through the remaining 4 hours to Helena.
852 backseat squabbles later, we were grateful to arrive at our aunt and uncle's home in Helena all in one piece.
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Amenities
- Free High-Speed Internet
- Kitchenette
- Pets allowed