Our 2019 Adventures

Well, like the old saying goes, “all good things must come to an end”, so has this wonderful trip / adventure to Alaska. After Rapid City, SD and Custer State Park, we continued our trek home.    Drove through the outskirts of the Badlands of SD.  We made a side trip into Sioux Falls, SD.  We visited Blue Beacon truck and RV wash.  We had both RVs and tow vehicles professionally washed and scrubbed.  We left there very pleased on how both our vehicles looked and shined.  We just kept praying it would not rain. Spent one night in Plankinton and last night we spend it in Onawa, IA.   We said good bye to our friends Claude, Bobbi and their dog, Squeaker, who came to meet us at Glacier National Park.  We hope to be seeing them again later this winter in Texas. Since it was only 400 miles and a 6 hour ride, we decided to attempt the drive without stopping anywhere for the night. It turned out to be 7.5 hrs including stops for fuel

Buffalo, WY (7/24/2016) Wild Turkey & Chicks Deer & Horses Pronghorns On our last evening in Buffalo, we visited the Occidental Hotel in town.  As far back as 1880, it had developed a reputation as the best place to stay.  Many famous people stayed here including:  Buffalo Bill Cody, Teddy Roosevelt, Tom Horn, Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid and Calamity Jane. The hotel, included in the novel “The Virginian”;  posted the first famous shoot-out of the novel and it took place outside the Occidental Hotel.  The saloon is exactly the way it looked over 100 years ago.  Walking the halls and lobby of the hotel, one can smell the old wooden features of the hotel and experience the creaking floors as well.  They still had the original kitchen with “ice box” and tea room.     Rapid City, SD 7/25/2016 The drive to Rapid City was uneventful.  Very long persist

Buffalo, WY We woke up to cooler temperatures this morning. Sixty-six degrees. What a relief! After 2 days of longer drives, we were all pretty happy that we only had a short ride of 120 miles.  We entered the "Crow" Indian Reservation as we headed south on I-90.  We were passing by this battlefield site so we decided to take a side trip to Little Big Horn, This is the site of Custer's Last Stand, in 1876.  More than 260 soldiers and personnel were defeated and died at the hands of several thousand Lakota & Cheyenne Indians.  Very interesting historical area. They had a museum and a drive thru trail to see where the various battles took place. There are monuments/markers placed in the locations where the soldiers actually fell, died and were later found.   Monument on actual location of  Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer's last stand.  Names of his 7th Cavalry soldiers are engraved