Day 5

Thursday is almost over. We started the day with a "continental" breakfast in room 101 of the Dakota Cowboy Motel in Custer. Words can not describe it. (I'll try.) Picture this: one dimly lit room has the food - blueberry muffins and two open loaves of bread (white and wheat) ready for the toaster. Fruit loops and cinnamon crunch wannabees. A mini fridg sitting up on a folding table with a gallon jug of milk in it . Coffee too. The other bulbless room has two white folding tables and a card table with metal chairs. But - you can't eat atmosphere. There was a billboard across the street with a Holida Inn ad on it advertising a hot breakfast and I was really thinking.........

Anyway -we got a good start on the day (before 8) and drove the Needles highway and out of the Mount Rushmore area. The Needles highway was breathtaking (as almost everything is). It's extremely narrow with sharp turns and blind corners and a few one lane" tunnels". We drove on through Wyoming on I 90 until we took the road through the Big Horn National Forest. WOW! (again, I know - but there aren't words to describe this region.) Everytime we stop to take a picture we turn to go back to the car and there is another outstanding view.

Family - you will be glad to know that we have not lost our funny bones. Your father made me laugh in the "Buckhorn Grocery and Woodcrafting Shop/Gas Station and I got a laughing jag so pronounced that he felt the need to apologize to the clientele (which only made it worse.). Imagine - apologizing for being good natured!! Really!!" and - -"He laughed too".

We got to Cody WY a little before 6 - in time to see the shoot out at the Irma Hotel (something about the hotel being original to Buffalo Bill's time period - the bar in the dining room was his). Then we checked in here at the Sunrise motel. Last night and tonight have evened me with the Sea Dip and Rip Van Winkle (almost...) this is a suite - (I am getting a laughing jag as I say it). Two rooms yes - and the bathroom has two doors - one to each room. One is the bedroom which only has room for the bed and the front room has a futon, a frig a TV and a table with 2 chairs. All the comforts of a cabin. But - we did laundry and downloaded the camera to the computer.

Of Note - we have no cell signal here and probably won't while in Yellowstone. We may not have Internet either (we won't have TV!) - so don't be discouraged - you'll hear from us when you hear from us. We are staying at Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel and the only number I have is 1-307-344-7311 in case of emergency.
Pretty soon we'll try putting the pictures on - we had our own slide show tonight and some of them are great (others are deleted). Love to all

PS to Garrett - we saw some VERY BIG trucks today that you would have really liked! They were hauling propellers for windmills!