Hilton Garden Inn Billings

I have picked up some kind of tropical disease, because that's what happens to adventurers - just ask Indiana Jones. It's a very clever disease. it's disguising itself as a common cold, but with a slight twist; and here's the masterstroke - I have a very painful earache with it. I have tried getting whatever's hurting in there out with a stick that i found on the ground but that just made it worse. See, I told you it ...

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>

... that!<br><br><br><br>We spoke a bit, waiting for the hotel<br>van to come and pick us and a few airline staff up, but my brain was<br>not fully functional so I didn't really know what, exactly I was<br>saying. Luckily he understood and we shared a little banter before<br>being driven to the hotel by Big Dan. He introduced himself to me and<br>then said &#8220;so you're from Liverpool eh?&#8221; which really threw me ...

We traveled to billings , because we wanted to get new tires on the truck, the little wear indicators were almost smowing so we thought it would be best to be safe  rather than sorry. Because Montana doesnt have any sales tax , its a good state to make big purchases. We researched on the net and it appears that  Costco is ...

... her harder' etc. I felt ill. Then one of one of the babies made a little cry-almost in her sleep and through gritted teeth he spat in her ear to 'Shut.The. ****.Up'. I stood up, turned around, grabbed him by the throat and said 'DUDE. The Bette Wrestler was thrown off this bus earlier for cursing near your kids, now here you are 'drip feeding' worse words into their precious little brains. Please will YOU shut the **** up and leave them alone. I am trying to sleep ...

... a climber attempt to scale the rock.<br><br>Our next destination was the Little Big Horn Battlefield National Monument in Montana, the sight of Custer's Last Stand. We watched a brief video about the park, toured the museum, then drove around the Battlefied reading the markers that described the battle between the troops and the Lakota Sioux and the Northern Cheyenne indian tribes. <br><br>Leaving there, we headed on to our destination the KOA in ...

... this pump isn't working properly so I ran out of fuel, even though I had quarter of a tank.  Tipping the car onto a flatbed sloshes more fuel from one side to the other, et voila!  <br>They couldn't get the part until this morning so we've had another unscheduled upmarket hotel stop!  We're in downtown Billings which is quite lively with restaurants, bars and cafes (including a Starbucks!), and a "ranch outfitter" which had ...

On their return trip from the Pacific, Lewis and Clark split up and went their separate ways for about a month. One of the most famous sites recorded by William Clark is called Pompeys Pillar - named "Pomp's Tower" by Clark in honor of little "Pomp" - Jean Baptiste - who was Sacagawea's son born on the expedition. Clark's first editor changed the name for some reason... This "pillar" is a dramatic sandstone structure rising ...

... distribution depot plotted by the Munchie One, got us to a huge, yet full, steak restaurant. We had an excellent dinner of steak with a very nice waitress who was off to Rhode Island next week to train to become an ultra-sound nurse, doing the 3 day 2,000mile thing the Americans seem to go in for. We told her it would take us a month. Billings is a major depot for Exxon which explains all the oil tankers coming along 212 yesterday. No piccies today.

I backtracked somewhat to I90 and headed north into Montana, my 39th state, first stop being the Custer Battlefield National Monument. It was fixed up rather nicely and had nice views. There was a small national military cemetery there where I might be able to be buried since I was in the army. It did seem to have a number of Vietnam war dead there.<br> I guess that was appropriate-to bury the dead from a misbegotten war at the site of one of the worst military ...