One Adventure Ends, Another Begins!

The weather in Yellowstone has turned nasty! Well, at least for Floridians. The last three days have been sideways rain, not cold enough to create snow and be pretty but seriously irritating, and clouds hovering over the mountains that are enough to make you want to pull out your hair. It's time to leave.

We can take a hint too. As we left at 8:30am this rainbow appeared. It was just what we needed to encourage us to leave such a 'cherry' job and area. As a matter of fact, we saw no less than 5 rainbows as we drove across Montana this day. Yep, it was time to move on.

Our first stop was to Little Big Horn, the site of Custer's Last Stand. The weather had turned pretty nice as we drove and we were really bouyed until we got out of the car. The wind was so strong (was it following us??) that I almost fell over. Then rain started. Wow, really?

Here is the actual field where Custer and his troops fell. The gravestones mark the area where each man  was killed and their names. At the time, they were all buried where they lay.






Years later, This memorial was erected and all the remains of the men were dug up and reburied together in a very deep hole surrounding this memorial. Only Custer was removed and he is buried in Arlington. Bob's 1st Cavalry Unit in Viet Nam was the continuation of Custer's Division.





Well, we didn't hang around here too long, we saw the museum than hopped back in the car and drove to Devil's Tower in the northeast corner of Wyoming.









We arrived at 6:30pm knowing we had less than an hour to get pictures and explore the area. We decided to do the 1.5 mile walk around the base of the Tower and the rest of these pictures are taken as we walked. The walk and different views of the Tower, fallen rock and surrounding areas were spectacular.




The sun was setting as we rounded the back of the Tower and we took several pictures in the different vantages of light. As most of the sites you see like this, the pictures don't do it justice, however, we tried!




























This is a valley off the south face of Devil's Tower faces. It was very scenic.








 Okay, it's starting to get dark and we just passed a sign that said we were only half way around. Enough with the pictures, let's walk!

Here was a handsome boy, watching us walk by. He is a mule deer.

And finally, here is more fierce Wildlife :) There must be 1,000 prairie dogs at the entrance which is a series of fields. They chirped, ran, wagged their cute little tails and dove in and out of the mounds looking like there was a special game they were playing which only they had the rules to. It was the perfect way to end a great day of site seeing.