Boothill Inn And Suites Billings

... clever.

If anyone knows of this disease, please can you let me know the cure. But please, please bear in mind that i think we are talking hours rather than days. As I write this, I grow weak. I'm not long for this world.


Thought of the Day

I must go in, the fog is rising.

For reference

I still have so much to give.
I hope men will say of me that I did duty by my country.

The Hampton was nice, new and comfortable. We woke this morning, enjoyed the hotel breakfast. We organized our bags and cleaned out the car; tossed out our cooler, food, drinks and utensils then headed for the airport. Billings is another extremely small airport. It was easy to park the rental car and walk to the gate.

Let the all day journey home begin....

We're delayed to Denver, 20 minutes.

... interpreted as an invitation but certainly no
Bart.



It was only when I stepped outside that
I immediately recognised him and him me. Bart, my host, tour guide
and companion for the trip is a fairly tall guy, well built with
streaks of grey to black hair. He speaks very passionately and is
very quick to laugh. My first impression was instant liking and I'm
happy to say he still hasn't ...

... cheapest around .Brent also had his eyes tested and new glasses ordered.By mid afternoon we were back on the road  heading for Bozeman and another costco, where they checked the wheel nuts and made sure we were good to go. Great service.we arrived at a little town called Ennis around 7 pm, a long day for us.

 

... to be sensational(ooh I'm so ker-azy), but this guy sat there, holding one of his kids just swearing into this kids ear every, single, sentence.At one point he threatened to throw one out of the window for whimpering. He was so nasty about it, I was even scared.
It was now about 2am and I could hear him talking to his wife- girlfriend- whatever and he was so abusive to her too that I was starting to feel sick on the seat infront. Telling her how he should have just ...

Helen, Danny and I decided that we'd covered most of the Black Hills so we packed up our rig and headed out for Billings. We traveled I-90 until we were in Wyoming, near Devils Tower.
Just in case you don't remember, Devil's Tower was the mountain in Close Encounters of the Third Kind and was the first national monument. We spent a short time at the monument listening to a talk about the geological formation of the tower given by a park ranger and ...

... leagues.  It turns out Billings is the largest town in Montana so I'd fallen on my feet really.  Adam took us to Top Tech Auto and, would you believe it, at soon as the car was taken off the truck, it started up and ran fine!  It's official, my car would prefer to be towed coast to coast!  Actually it was a good clue for the Top Tech team - apparently the tank is in two lobes with a pump to transfer fuel from one side to the ...

... silent auction had more wonderful antique fireworks than I have every seen at one time before . . maybe more than I have ever seen all together . . Closing Ceremony started ...

Our first stop today was Buffalo, Wyoming. We visited the Jim Gatchell Memorial Museum. The staff would not allow photographs inside the museum so you can only see the photo I took of the exterior. Jim Gatchell was a history buff who collected a large amount of old west memorabilia. We next stopped ...

... Club off of 90. then into Billings to the KMart dealing with my own seemingly never ending problems with my van. It had been missing all day and the temperature was going way up whenever I went up a hill. I got a metal hose and tried to clean up my vacuum leaks, checked things over again and mostly scratched my head and hoped for the best. Then I turned west on 90 and stopped for the night at a rest area past Park City.
185.3 miles for the day-end day 21