Wyoming, Montana

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Wyoming, Montana and on up into Alberta, Canada:

June 29-July 2, 2013: The North American Safari Contingent continue their travels, we are beginning to look forward to our “TOURS”.  We realize how much we have done to this point (99 days on the road); all the planning and organization that it has taken.  Our old brains and bodies are beginning to need a bit of a re-charge; hopefully meeting up with the Fantasy Tours group will give us a bit of a boost.

Our first stop after leaving South Dakota was at Devil’s Tower National Monument, just outside of Gillette, Wyoming.  We had been in this area before, on our USA trip travels with the kids back in ’92, but had not gotten to see this amazing ROCK up close and personal.  We parked the MoHo at the KOA Campground that is right at the base of the Tower. Fantastic view!  Mike and I walked the mile and half around the base of this monument.  We took lots of photos; every bend in the path gave us a slightly different view and more photo opps.  Thank goodness for digital photography, we’ll delete a great percentage of the shots taken and still have more than our book will need.

Devil's Tower, Wyoming

Prairie Dogs

Devil's Tower

Our next day’s travel was into Montana – the summer weather has finally caught up with us. We were quite warm and dry-camping in Billings, not the most pleasant day of the trip, but the 4 of us survived. The travel route took us next to Great Falls, MT.  Another day of driving along a loooong straight road, think we actually only had 3 turns in 220+miles we traveled the entire day.  The roadsides were very green with hay and wheat fields along most of the passage.  One train we passed had 128 cars, saw at least 456 cows and a few horses, a few goats and sheep were also seen.  Can you tell the navigator is get a bit rummy, counting turns, train cars and animals.  The prettiest view of the day came in the afternoon when we started seeing bright yellow canola fields along both sides of the highway, reminded us of some our roads in Australia last year.  When we stopped for the night, we rested at another KOA – a nice stop, where we enjoyed an evening campfire – complete with roasted hotdogs and wom-poms for dessert.

Wom-pom desserts

Canola Fields

The Canadian Boarder was our next stop, we made passage across without any problems, although we were a bit concerned when the 2 guards in the booth started whispering between themselves – were these 2 senior citizens something other than we seemed?  It was another very warm day and evening, even with the A.C. running it was a bit too warm for comfort.  We also had one of our first encounters with some unwanted insects. First was the moth invasion – must have had a dozen or more in the front windshield area; a hatching somewhere?  Then we also had a run in with some hungry mosquitoes ---- (buzzzzz) on our dog walk.

Canadian Beer at the end of the day

Only about 90 miles to Calgary tomorrow morning – we will meet up with our Fantasy Tours Rally for The 2013 Stampede Experience.