Cut Bank, Wyoming

So, we have had two long days of travel.  We awoke in Buffalo to find the perfect bird in the grass outside the RV.  He is a beautiful yellow and eats dandelion seeds for a living.  Ohio needs these birds!

After we left Buffalo, Wyoming, we headed north into Montana.  We stopped at the Little Big Horn Battlefield Park which was quite a visit.  We listened to an hour long description of what happened to Custer over two days in June 1887 that was presented by a Crow Indian Park Ranger.  He explained how descriptions from the surviving Indians and archeological research have pieced together what happened.  I didn't take any pictures since we were run out of there by a rain storm.
We traveled through Billings to Bozeman where we spent the night nestled among Aspen trees.

Montana is a beautiful place with an amazing range of landscapes that range from planes to snow capped mountains.  I90 runs along the Yellowstone River valley for 60 miles or so.  The valley is really wide and fertile.  It is delimited by mountains on either side, making a beautiful drive.  This is the rainy season here, so the land that is normally somewhat arid is very green. It also means that we have driven through a lot of rain and the tall mountains are buried in the clouds.

Leaving Bozeman, we continued west through the intermountain valleys and turned north to Helena and Great Falls. You go from mountain ranges and canyons to the great plains by the time you get to Great Falls. 

For those of us who live in St. Louis or have lived in Kansas City, the far end of the Missouri River is in Montana.  This is as far as Louis and Clark got if I remember correctly.  So here is the Mighty Mo, Montanna style.  We followed the river through a canyon and into the plains.

Well, tomorrow we enter Canada where internet service is expensive and limited, so this is the last post for a while.  When we reach Alaska, I will update you with what we saw.