Custer, SD

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After Coeur D'Alene we moved on into Montana. We spent one night in Missoula before heading down to Yellowstone. We stayed just outside Yellowstone and the next day we drove through the park to visit the main attractions. We could have spent a lot more time there but the weather was bad and forecast to be bad all week, so we decided to see what we could in one day and move on.

The drive provided some good sights along the way including elk and bison right next to the road. We stopped for an hour or two at Old Faithful where there was a short walk around all the different geysers. The weather was ok at this point but as we got back to Old Faithful it started to rain and gradually get heavier. The geyser erupts regularly and the times are predicted. We had to wait about half an hour but the predicted time was fairly accurate. it wasn't as impressive as I had expected, but the more impressive ones only erupt every 11 hours or more. On the path near the geyser there was a large herd of bison which we could get remarkably close to. They seemed pretty calm animals.

We stayed just outside the East entrance of Yellowstone at an RV park that was also part of a motel. There was a creepy old house on the hill behind the motel which looked like a scene from Psycho.

From here we headed right across Wyoming to Sundance, the town where the Sundance Kid got his name after being jailed there. We stayed two nights and checked out the town. There wasn't too much to see but there was a small museum in the basement of the police station which had original documents from the Sundance Kid's arrest and imprisonment.

We left Sundance today for Custer in South Dakota. Along the way we visited Mount Rushmore which was impressive, but not as much as we had expected it to be. It was a lot higher and further away from the viewing platform than I imagined so it didn't seem as big.