Quality Inn 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.

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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.

 

... half way down the bus and completly oblivious to this commotion . Next thing you know he gets taken off the bus too and thrown to the floor and cuffed.. I tell ya, who needs soap operas man, this is REAL LIFE! I mean, how gutted would you be. You think you got away with the dogs and the searching and all cos of the bad luck of some other person, You get taken out...

After all the excitement , the bus was now allowing all the new passengers from that area on ...

... 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.

... a section of the Theodore Roosevelt National Park to take some pictures and have lunch. It was beautiful!

The only other stop we made was for fuel about an hour before today’s final destination, the world’s first KOA (Kampground of America) in Billings, Montana.

We pulled into the campground at about 5 p.m., checked in, set up camp, made our very first ...

I didn't have the heart to blog yesterday - those of you who are good at reading maps will have noticed I only managed 166 miles yesterday (not the 805 I'd hoped) :-( It all started brilliantly.  Harry took advantage of our move into Mountain time to wake me up at 5.20am so we were on the road not long after 6.  The high grasslands in the early morning sunlight were absolutely stunning.  I had breakfast in Sheridan, where Buffalo ...

... she has to come in for more screening because that could mean some sort of problem. That can have an effect on our trip but I¡¦m going to assume that she¡¦ll be just fine. fº I¡¦m so glad that she¡¦s with me on the trip, I¡¦ve always been wanting to do this with her, she¡¦s is the best dog ever, so sweet, smart, funny, pretty and the best snuggler too. The trip would have been so much more quite without her. I realize that I don¡¦t know ...

... US Army horses preceeded one to the Native Americans by many decades. We spent a whole day at the battelfield and its environs, and it was not enough time. I guess we'll have to go back. We did have some excitement around noon with a flat tire, but Eric, our intrepid driver, took the bus away for a while and got the tire replaced. We have been searching for an appropriate Indian ...

... Montana and go into the park by the north entrance.  If you've never been here you can't appreciate how big Yellowstone is...  There is a circular road that runs all around inside the park and it's roughly 140 miles long!!!   At this moment (Tuesday 10:30 AM)we are in Billings in a Red Roof Inn..  The weather is turning bad and there is snow to the west of us but it's just raining and cold here.  I was planning on spending more money for lodging at ...