Friday, June 29, 2007

Viroqua WI

For the night. Puppy pickup tomorrow.

Mississippi River

Waseca MN

15.33 gals/$2.899 gal/trip odo 3405.2

Minnesota

Photo Galleries added

A sidebar with links to the daily photo galleries has been added from the Quality Inn @ Sioux City SoDak. I am caught up to yesterday afternoon.

Thursday, June 28, 2007

As falls Sioux Falls - redux

Presho SoDak

$3.199 gal/ 14.35 gals/ trip odo 3050.2

3000 miles

On the trip odo.
And back in central time: Murdo SoDak

Leaving Rapid City

The morning ritual

This has been the everymorning activity. Jetboil, bottled water, and travelling presspot with some HiQ coffee grounds.

Underground sight seeing today.

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

@ Legion Lakes

Stopping tonight at Custer Park in SoDak. A cabin in the park. After the sunroof mishap we went into a long drive through the wasteland of Eastern WY.

got gas @ Moorcraft, Wy but couldn't post it.

13.23 gals/$2.98/trip odo 2706.7

Tomorrow we plan on touring Jewel cave and then onto Sioux City.

Back on the road

25 minutes and thanks to Steve Reiman @ Buffalo, Reiman automotive we are back on the road after vacuuming, cardboard and ducktape.

Trouble

Construction on 90 and a rock kicked up by a truck ricochets off the pod and smashes the sun roof.

Back on 90

Heading east ...

This is where we camped last night

Up in the Bighorn mtns, Tongue river campground. Onto badlands today.

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Langs for lunch

Lovell WY- up in the bighorn mtns so probably no updates till tmrrow. Medicine wheel then camping.

Ralston WY

$3.119 /gal / 13.69 gals / 2405 trip odo

Down out of the Mtns

Stocking up on supplies @ Cody

Monday, June 25, 2007

From Pahaska Teepee

We are at the Goff Lodge now, and again, not cell or web acess.
This message and partial pic update is from Pahaska Teepee which is the last commercial enterprise before the East Gate of the YNP. Pics from the last few days here:

http://web.mac.com/hdw/iWeb/OutWest/June19-20-21.html

and here:

http://web.mac.com/hdw/iWeb/OutWest/June21-fishing.html

we will be starting our trip back tomorrow.

So... should be back on line with phone access then.

I guess I am about two days behind now with the pics, will try to get more caught up in the next couple of days.

Saturday, June 23, 2007

Cody WY

2027.6 on the trip odo
15.1 gals / $3.149 gal

missed recording 1 partial fillup in Yellowstone.

1999 miles

One week on the road, and at the top of the clark fork overlook, on the Nez Perce hiway, 8,800 ft of elevation, no cel or internet for four days, and 1999 miles on the trip odo.

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Billings

14.34 gallons
$ 3.14 gal
1410.3 trip odo

The last stand

Little Bighorn Battle Monument

Montana

On I90

Mountains

At the horizon, snow capped Bighorn Mtns - our first view of real mountains

Breakfast in Gillette

On the road again, this time to Cooke City.

Our cabin at Devils Tower KOA

a red rock cliff and the Belle fourche river as our backyard.

Our front yard

Monday, June 18, 2007

Well, There is no cell phone service here at Devils Tower.

However we are staying at a great camp ground and have had an excellent rest day.
I am posting this from the porch of the Devils Tower trading post where they sell beer and have a wifi hotspot. Moose Drool Brown Ale.

WE hiked around the base of the Tower in the morning. We tried to look up Saba in the climbing registry, but had not luck. It is all computerized now, and they would not let us look at the books from the early fifties when Saba, (Tris Coffin) reached the summit twice.

This afternoon we went for another hike to the prairie dog town.

A gallery of pics from the last two days are linked from the pic above.

Sunday, June 17, 2007

Sundance WY

14.14 gal
$3.19 gal
1070.1 trip odo

Wyoming

Mt. Rushmore

Wall Drug

Yes we made it to Wall Drug.

We can go home now.

24.06MPG

After 2 fillups.

Reliance S.D.

15.06 gallons
748.9 miles trip odo
$3.14 /gal

Missouri river

8:30 am start

Falls in Sioux Falls

WE walked around Falls PArk, had dinner, went to Barnes and Noble, and now, this morning are getting ready to drive to the other side of South Dakota.

Saturday, June 16, 2007

As falls Sue,

so falls, Sioux Falls. 8 miles from S.F. S.D. another hail wind rain thunderstorm. 570 miles is enough for today. Splitting the drive betwixt us lands here for the night @ 3PM.

Albert lea MN

16.03 gallons
397 miles on the trip odo
$2.78 / gallon
24.81 mpg

Pic says it all

Its raining.

Minnesota

Crossing the Mississippi

Breakfast @ Janesville

I just noticed the time stamp is off by an hour.

Wisconsin

On the road

Starting mileage : 51753
trip : 000

5:30 am

Friday, June 15, 2007

First of many

Filling up to start out full.

The photon torpedo is loaded.

One thing about having more space. You take more stuff.