Yellowstone River Lodge Columbus

... 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>

When we woke at Annie Boo and Drew's house we all had some pops fpr brakfast. ( almost forgot how amazing they were and talked about what we wanted to do for the day. We came to the conclusion that we would drive towards Absarokee (which is about 1 miles towards the beartooth mountains) and look for some rocks to boulder (climb). We drove for about 45 minutes and found this awesome trail that has some rock faces about half a mile into it. Tripp and I climbed for some time ...

... It is a turquoise 1961 olds super 88 in mint condition and low miles...I just wish they would let us take it for a spin(please!!!) I posted some pics so chec them out. Tomorrow we dont know what we are doing but I think on thursday we are going to annie and drew's cabin deep in the mountains a few hours west of here. I cant wait to be away from civilization and face to face with mother nature.

Monday we left Deadwood and headed for Yellowstone.  On the way we made a swung off I-90 to see Devils Tower.  At 13 miles from the Tower we rounded a curve and could easily see it from that distance.  We spent some time at the base of the tower and watched three people climbing the face which is straight up.  Two were coming down and one person was going up.  Not my idea of fun but different strokes for different folks!!!   We stopped on the way out to have ...

... they ran over something. I turn around and continue to read the sign and snack on my protein bar. Then I turn around to get back in the car, but it's farther away then I remember parking it. Can you hear the wheels start turning now? Yup, then it dawns on me, I forgot to put the break on and the Little Guy silently rolled back down the turn off area and, luckily, hit a parking curb. <br><br>Walking down to the ...

... returned from his less than fruitful fishing expedition, I was making him a cup of coffee when I distinctly heard a meow. Just one. I turned to Chris and he remarked, "sounds like a kitty." I open the door, look out and there is this smallish Siamese Orange tabby cross cat staring at me with big blue Siamese eyes. Hard to tell how old, could be young or could be small bodied. Have you ever talked to a Siamese? Good Lord they can talk!!! Meow ...

... you gotta pour the loose "cheesecake" powder into a separate bowl and mix with cold water and allow to set up for 10 minutes. Then you gotta take the blackberry topping, empty it out of it's own packet into a pan, add water and cook. You then add the chocolate sprinkles on top of the cheesecake mix, and top with the blackberry sauce. All that said, it tastes like cheesecake, but doesn't "feel" like cheescake in your mouth. It does feel like cheesecake in your belly, tho ...

... called Paradise Valley and not without good reason, it was prettier than the park! But one person we talked to said we hadn't seen nothing yet since there were parts of Mt. that were even better. The next morning we got up and drove to a natural hot springs bath you swim in and it was great, just what we needed after being so cold the day before. Then we drove across Montana to Spokane, Washington to stay with one of Leah ...

... a magma intrusion, or lava which pushed through a weak section of earth's crust and cooled rapidly, forming these massive columns. We were there in beautiful weather, and the girls loved "bouldering" on the chunks of rock which had cleaved off of the tower over hundreds of thousands of years. We watched climbers well up the tower, as this is a climbing mecca. A major victory was Jocelyn's 1.3 mile excursion around the base of the tower without any backpack time. Chris's ...

... a number of years ago presenting American history through the eyes of minorities, or those without the power and it gives a much different view than our textbooks give us. Anyway, enough of that, it was just interesting to get to see a place like that, something like Mount Rushmore but on the opposite end of the spectrum.<br> It was a beautiful day and after spending a couple of hours there I went on north and had a cheeseburger deluxe at the Schwarzwald ...