So yesterday wound up being 637 miles, today around 540, I think. Tomorrow is supposed to be around 500 to my destination.
Overall a better day and about 11 hours long driving. I deducted a little over an hour for a couple of stops I made a long the way.
First was to a small museum in the town of Garry Owen, Montana. Stacy and I have stopped several times at the Little Bighorn Battlefield site, but never at the museum I visited today. I enjoyed taking a look at the artifacts on display from Custer's Last Stand, and a bit more from the indians view.
The town is actually located on the spot where the over 4,000 indians were encamped when the attack and subsequent massacer took place in June 1876.
Second stop was a place we had stopped to see back in 1996, a site of an old fort near Buffalo, Wyoming.
Other than that it was just drive.
Temps were 93 to 98 all daytime to dark, and I did get some rain near Rapid City, South Dakota. Still a lot of motorcycles around from the Sturgis motorcycle event near the beginning of the month.
I couldn't get over how much growth there has been in the 5 years since we'd been this way on the trip to Missouri in May of 2006.
I made it to Mitchell, SD, and lost my second hour to Central Time, doing it.
Onward to Missouri tomorrow!
Last August 3rd, the only car dealer in town, Riverside Motors had a fire destroy their offices and showroom. Above was during the fast moving 20 minute fire. Below was taken less than 15 minutes ago and shows their new showroom/offices just about ready to move into. The rubble from the burn down was gone in less than two weeks and crews worked all during the coldest part of winter building this new building. It was moved to the back of the property and cars were moved up to the front. Since the fire the 'offices' were moved out to trailers not visible in the photo but to the left of the new building. Riverside also lost the GM part of the sales and service end of it with the GM restructuring. Too bad for the owners of all the GM cars and trucks in the area, like us, we have to drive to Sandpoint to a dealer there for GM service etc. About 35 miles away now. Riverside is now just a Chrysler/Dodge dealer service location. Pretty building though! Photo below actually occurred ...
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my thuoghts are with you.
Robin