We have to drive across the state of South Dakota today in order to reach our Sioux Falls hotel by this evening. MapQuest says that it will take 6 1/2 hours. That’s without stops or breaks of any kind. I wouldn’t say that the drive is boring. I love the vastness of the plains and seeing…
I wake up to find a beam of sunshine shining down on me from a skylight in the ceiling that I hadn’t even noticed the night before. It’s 5:30 a.m. I’m still kicking myself having discovered last night that I left my battery camera charger and one of my $50 batteries in the last hotel.…
We were supposed to head to Cody, Wy this morning but we arrived here so late yesterday that we’d had no time to explore the town. So, we eat our leftover cold pizza for breakfast and we go out to stroll up and down the main street of Red Lodge, Mt. Doc and I step inside…
We leave our cabin at 6 a.m. unhappy that we’d had so little time to spend here. It would have been nice to take one of their morning trail rides and take a tour of Buffalo Bill’s historic lodge. We walk over to the lodge and take some photos but there’s no time for…
I wake up at 12:30 a.m. and sit straight up in bed. I reach over and turn on the bedside lamp. Something has touched me. Doc steps out of the bathroom to find me sitting up with the light on. “There’s something in our room,” I say. “Yes, I think it’s a mouse. I…
We cross the Bighorn Mountains for the second time, this time by traveling to Sheridan and crossing via Rt. 14A. This road is more scenic than yesterday’s Rt. 16. We him immediately climb via a series of switchbacks with spectacular views. Once over the mountains we drive through flat farm country through Lovell and Powell.…
