Wingate 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>

... even let her on to get her bag off the bus and so, having asked her what it looked like, got on themselves to get it off.<br>She (like EVERY person on the bus,) had a 'black' bag.. The police found one,showed her through the window and she nodded that it was hers. As they took it off the bus and opened it to check it was, they found a crackpipe inside. She denied it was hers and on closer inspection, they found the wallet of the correct owner of the bag who was ...

... 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 ...

... front of the geyser that has a constant steam flow coming out of it. I walked back to the car and this guy came over to ask me if it was ok to have the dog with me. So he mentioned that he was travelling with his dog as well and so he asked if I would like to stay and hang out until the next eruption so I thought, "why not, I'm not in a hurry". So I sat down while he, Andrew, got his dog Richie, out of the car. Then he sat down and showed me the gold he found at the Yuba River ...

Miles Driven: 470.5 Average Speed: 58.2 Time In Car: 6:57:41 After donuts for Breakfast at Wall Drug, we headed off to Mount Rushmore. It was a lot cooler than either of us thought it would be. We thought we'd stop by and just take a picture, but we spent time learning about how it was made and walking through some paths. We also saw some billy goats ...

... sight. By the multi-level parking garages dug out of the black hills. By the legions of tourists and passerbys, like us, who'd come to pay homage at this altar of man's ability to control nature. Mount Rushmore is nothing, if not an avatar of man's ability to use brute force to impose his designs upon the natural landscapes. It seems the natural beauty of the black hills alone could not be enough to entertain man. After leaving Rushmore and Crazy Horse behind, and descending ...

... Club off of 90. then into Billings to the KMart dealing with my own seemingly never ending problems with my van. It had been missing all day and the temperature was going way up whenever I went up a hill. I got a metal hose and tried to clean up my vacuum leaks, checked things over again and mostly scratched my head and hoped for the best. Then I turned west on 90 and stopped for the night at a rest area past Park City. <br> 185.3 miles for the day-end day 21