Well on to the black hills of south Dakota…spent a late evening at the crazy horse memorial, a laser light show that was quite good…the face is done and they expect to finish in another 60 years…guess I won’t see it done but quite the tribute to the Indian and also the carvers…mostly allthe same family….a great story….the next day we went to mt. rushmore and uuuuuud and ahhhhhhd with everyone else in the park… climbed about 200 stairs just to get that awesome picture..…..worth the trip……then…..
On to the badlands which the name describes but they have had a lot of rain so they didn’t look sooo bad….even had a lot of green grass…saw antelope everywhere….then….the famous Wall Drug….with all the animals we remembered when we went with the kids years ago….passed by the flintstones park just took a picture..hehhe…
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Then on to The banks of the Missouri river…..I had had it I was not going another moment in the car my butt was tired…even though we were only 2 hours of the family in Olivet, SD…but we saw a sign for the chamberlain country club so we checked into the famous holiday inn and then went in search of the CC…a cute 9 hole,cost us $12 apiece… walked in 86 degree heat, played soso, had a couple of beers and ice tea and water….all costing $4.00..then on to dinner at a super resort on the Missouri….then.

On to the family…fond memories being back here….ken and lynn welcomed us and then put us right to work…I mostly just chatted and watered garden plants but chuck got right into the cow tagging and worming and goodness knows what else they were doing to those hieffers….thats cow talk for lady cows…bugs and more bugs…beautiful rainbow this morning as the rain is coming…it was 86degrees yesterday…who knows….found some old farm treasures at the old homestead and promised to keep them in the family…we will be leaving today for Canada….bye for now

WELL…..we have had 2 great days in Yellowstone ….saw buffalo, old faithful (twice) geysers galore, a wolf, 2 bears one brown black bear and one black black bear, elk, a strange bird, turns out it was a sandhill crane (according to the ranger)looked like an emu to us..hehhe….staying in all the hot spots Greybull and Gardiner….combined population of 5,000….eating in all the fine spots, gift shop/restaurant /casino/bathroom/hotel and bar combination and probably a gas station and white water rafting shop owned by the same owner…multi tasking…..lots of snow and ice still around…license plates from all over the us and tons of rental RV’s no one speaking English….all very nice and very impressed with the park…weather sunny and cool….tomorrow in rapid city…

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Well point A to point B is alive and well….only 500 miles in the car today..sheese…Sherwood to Twinfalls Idaho…looking for a chili’s to have a buffalo chicken salad which chuck has had withdrawal from since the chilis in Wilsonville closed…my bottom is permanently bent…stopped in Baker,OR for a museum break(chuck needed a bathroom)…neat museum…did you know the airstream trailor was invented by a guy from baker, he was the first one to put the floor between the axel’s so you could stand up…trivia galore….oregon trail info and all kinds of local collections…staying in shilo inn’s free breakfast and internet, and a senior discount and aaa discount and another mystery discount….$90….tomorrow Jackson hole…
Okay anyone with a scruffy beard and hiking shoes in jeans or moose, or elk or fish or cowboy hats and boots or antlers or anything else with an outdoor theme…these people are in Jackson, Wyoming…..what a fun town…stayed at a rustic inn…antler chandelier….fireplace and heated floors in the bathroom….chuck is dressed in shorts however it rained on us and dropped 25 degrees in a couple of hours…looking for thunderstorms but never happened…he is in jeans and a sweatshirt today…

We are in Gardner Montana tonight….north end of Yellowstone park…went thru Teton national park today and half of Yellowstone… not very many people and lots of buffalo (walking along the road oh I mean down the middle of the road) and elk….still snow and ice on the lakes but spectacular mountain scenery…you forget how giinormous these parks are and beyond beautiful…..waterfalls were full, no bears but hoping…