Budget Inn Express of Gillette

... in Wall,SD. Very corny but great goofy photos ops. Mia and Caroline take note....
South Dakota has stone tepee structures at most of their rest stops. Thought you might like to see a picture of one. Next stop was the Black Hills Mountain in South Dakota. There we viewed Mount Rushmore. Leaving Rushmore we winded our way ...

Toujours en direction de Yellowstone... à travers le Wyoming désormais.
Il faut donc quitter les grandes forêts indiennes, mais pour retrouver un autre de leurs lieux sacrés, Devil'sTower. Un monolithe de plus de 380m de haut, qui à la surface d'un terrain de football au sommet!
Selon la légende indienne, sept vierges (les pléiades) se seraient réfugiées ...

... The Indian memorial looks like a burial mound from the outside with the centre taken out and pathways cut in so you can get to it. Walking into it it felt 'sacred' - I later found out that there are prayers said there by the Indians June 5th each year for World Peace. There is a beautiful wire sculpture (see picture) overlooking where the indians attacked the hill from.

There is a small museum run by the National Park Service which showed ...

Starting back.......Traveled thru the Bighorns on our way to Gillette. They were incredible. Had to stop for a herd of cattle that cowboys were rounding up and driving them on horseback to the transport trucks. Just had to stop and wait patiently. They still have to ride and find the cattle the on horseback.......the same way they did it 100 years ago.

today we got our tire fixed again saw Everett old friend since I was 12. Susie went to Pioner Manor to see old friends she worked with, I went and saw Debbie a girl I use to work with, Susie and I visted My cousin June and Tom who gave us a Bird cage he had made, saw our firnds Bill and alice, also susies friend Steve whose wife passsed last week ...

... the most of the stuff from the insides and found duplicated close to the same as the old house, the bedrooms were exactly the same, even still had my world map on the wall in the bedroom I stayed in and dreamed up all my future trips, along with a cloth calendar I got of the matterhorn in switzerland where I almost met my maker as I got lost bymyself on a skiing trip, some ...

Tonight we ate at a really good restraunt in Gillette called the Chop House, Susie and I shared a filet, we went to the fire works ameture competion, The anouncer said that Dicovery Chanel was there all week filming for a upcoming show on fireworks, after Supper we visited my moms cousin wife, Shirley.

... where we stoped at Captn Rons Bar , he was a friend of Ssuies family and died last week of cancer at 56, He was a interestiing guy and lived life to the fullest passing away at 56, He thru a feed for the bikers called the Ham and Jam at his bar feeding countless bikers, we passsed by Devils tower on the way back to Gillette, today we ...

... able to pull it back together for the win. After cleaning up and taking a nap, it was out to Amy's Aunt's ranch for a wonderful bar-b-que and to catch up with a bunch of friends I hadn't seen in a long time. Charity was a bit shocked when she found out I was the "skinny B@#ch" talking to Quinn... that made my day. After a magnificent sunset, I jumped in Amy and Marcelo's car to head out to our old friend Tony's house to watch the fireworks. Marcelo ...

We were happy to return to "civilization" in Jackson. Meaning, we had access to decent restaurants. We still got our fix of hiking and gorgeous scenery in the Grand Teton National Park. There is a very impressive Native Arts museum in the park which a very impressive collection. Jackson is glitzy and has a lot of lifestyles of the rich and fatuous about it, but it made for a good jump off place for the park.