Days Inn Billings

... clever.<br><br>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. <br><br><br>Thought of the Day<br><br>I must go in, the fog is rising.<br><br>For reference<br><br>I still have so much to give.<br>I hope men will say of me that I did duty by my country.<br>

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. <br><br>Let the all day journey home begin....<br><br>We're delayed to Denver, 20 minutes.<br>

... interpreted as an invitation but certainly no<br>Bart.<br><br><br><br>It was only when I stepped outside that<br>I immediately recognised him and him me. Bart, my host, tour guide<br>and companion for the trip is a fairly tall guy, well built with<br>streaks of grey to black hair. He speaks very passionately and is<br>very quick to laugh. My first impression was instant liking and I'm<br>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.<br><br> <br>

... other passengers [feigned] disgust.. I found her quite amusing (well I suppose I would, she sat NOWHERE near me..thats one think I HAVE learnt, dont travel at the back on a Greyhound!), everyone else was tutting and taking great offence to her bending over, 'whooping' and cackling.<br><br>At one point we were boarding the bus after a break. The engine was running and our very miserable driver was smoking outside. The Bette Wrestler boards and sees the empty drivers ...

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.<br>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 ...

... opposite what the BATF representative told us the day before. While Gene Baker does not work for BATF now, somehow I got the impression he did in the past. The fireworks demos started out fine but ended in a down pour. Photos Copywrite 2008 Jackie Whedbee- All Rights Reserved

... all the pesky Indians to go back to their reservations and be fed by the US. The Indians wanted to continue their nomadic way of life hunting their own food. The problem had arisen because gold had been found in the Black Hills and the US Govt could no longer keep prospectors out of what was an Indian Reservation. So laws had been passed to limit where the Indians could go. Three ...

... at the hands of one of the worst military leaders our country had. If Custer had been in Vietnam he would have probably been fragged. If you look at where the men were you would realize they were sitting ducks. Custer was looking for glory and had no regard for the safety of his men and he led them into a trap. Our history books in school as I was growing up pretty much touted "manifest destiny" as god's will. I don't buy that. I read an interesting ...