Holiday Inn The Grand Montana-Billings

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.

... accent
(http://www.youtube.com/watch ?v=K1zfG9No12Y&feature=related
i f any of you reading are from another country)is the flavour of the
month in UK.



The hotel was beautiful, posh and well
kept. I headed up to my room in a daze, overwhelmed by the massive
TV, plush sofa and giant, comfy double bed and coffee peculator. I
showered and then collapsed in a jet-lagged, exhausted heap.

... 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.

 

... in your seat was a swearword , then I verbally abused him.. somehow, sadly I dont think he got ANY of it.
I did throw some dagger looks at him when he disembarked at Butte.. but I dont think he noticed or remotely cared.
Justice was slightly done though. Just before he left the bus for his lengthy 2 more days on another bus to New York (he'd been moaning about that too) the baby he was holding peed all over him.HAHA! Good! Wish she had done more!

Billings, Montana, United States sara.a

... which is the first KOA and probably one of the best. It sits among towering pine trees along the Yellowstone River. The lawns are lush and flowers are present on most sites. We're here for only one night because Danny has found a way for us to go to Yellowstone National Park that won't be too far out of our way from our original destination of Banff. Helen has never been to Yellowstone but has always wanted to see it so tomorrow we head further west.

... since we left home on Thursday, and headed over to the campground’s outdoor BBQ, “Pistol Pete’s.” We both had a filling meal of rib steak, baked beans, potato salad, corn on the cob, and Texas toast.

When we returned to our site, we both took showers and I started laundry. Sometimes uneventful days of driving, drinking, and dirty clothes can be darned divine!

... the tasselled leather jackets and rhinestone studded belt buckles you could possibly want.  I'm hoping we'll be on our way in the next hour or so, although one of my objectives of seeing a sunset over the Pacific is in jeopardy as it is 982 miles to the coast, and I have to pick Mum and Dad up from Seattle airport tomorrow evening.  Ah well, we'll see how it goes.  We'll get as far as we possibly can today.  More later.
RnH x

Yesterday was a full travel day so I thought to stay here in Billings for 2 nights and plan where we will be heading the next couple of days. Wyoming doesnˇ¦t have lot of different directions to go so it needs a bit more time to research. Tomorrow will be another long but exciting drive day, about 7+ hours. Not so much in mileage as in scenery driving. We will be driving one of the most scenic drives in the US but also in the world. Itˇ¦s ...

... gravel road. Yes, on a tour bus. After arriving at the Bailey ranch, we all got out of the bus so that the weight was reduced as much as possible, while driver Eric gently negotiated the huge vehicle over a wooden bridge that straddles Rosebud Creek. We ate our box lunches in the shade of the Bailey's aspens. Mr. Bailey showed us historic and prehistoric (Clovis) arrowheads and Native American artifacts, as well as US Army ...

... top was actually many feet underground and over millions of years all the ground around has been eroded away. We'd been taking it fairly steady but then we realized it was 4pm and we were 250 miles from our next destination!! We set off along a back road to Montana 212 West - one of the most barren roads we've ever driven along. Endless East Montanan scrub land with dead straight roads with nothing on them. It took us ...