Yellowstone River Lodge Columbus

... monument due to the calcite and gypsum deposits which make the caves glitter. The tour started with an elevator ride down 250ft underground, where there were no bats to worry about. The size of the caves was pretty amazing especially since they believe they have only explored 3% of the actual cave. After coming back up to the surface we headed over to Custer State Park in western South Dakota and spent our first rainy night camping.

Cody, Wyoming, United States nelmieux

... springs so I stopped at the hot springs for an hour or two and just relaxed in the pools. There are couple of different pools available and each one is a different temperature.

By the time I arrived in Cody it was early evening so I went for a couple of beers at a nearby bar and then went for dinner in an italian restaurant, which was really good. I was expecting tomorrow to be a long day in Yellowstone so I made sure I wasnt out too late this time.

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 ...

I'm starting to think the letter "M" is bad luck for me . . . May, Milwaukee, Montana . . .

Right now it's SNOWING and the Beartooth Pass to Yellowstone is closed so I have to go around through Cody. But that's not the topper. I almost lost the Little Guy at Little Big Horn yesterday.

Okay - this is actually funny because nothing really terrible happened in the end.

I'm driving through Little Big ...

... meal in it for him if he "knocked" on the door loudly enough... No sign of him since - maybe he'll show up for breakfast. Sorry there are no new pictures - we've been working on getting the blad done and haven't gotten around to downloading the recent stuff. See you in a few... Things we LOVE Down, polarfleece, "windstopper" material, and hot beverages Things we HATE Peeing outside when it's cold and windy The aftereffects of eating chili mac ;-(

... 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 ...

... were flagged down by a couple of bikers who were from Texas and asked us for some tools and jumper cables for their dying Harley (1,500 mile ride w/o a toolkit? Rookies). That was the first and only time we were acknowledged by a biker in our two days there, although Chris felt as if he had bonded with the biker community. Aug 9 (Day 100) Keystone, SD We headed out early to Mt. Rushmore, and our location in Keystone made it very easy as it was a 5 minute drive from our ...