We started off in Montana yesterday, drove through Glacier National Park, then to Helena where we spent the night. Today we drove southeast, only stopping at the Big Horn Battlefield and did not get out of Montana until almost 6:00 PM. Montana is a big, big state!!!
The drive from Helena took us through the Elkhorn Mountains, by Canyon Ferry Lake and the Missouri River where fishermen were floating their crafts downstream in the morning before the heat of the day caught up with them. We passed the headwaters of the Missouri River and crossed the famous Madison River, drove through Bozeman and Livingston before meeting up with the Yellowstone River that guided us eastward toward Billings. From Billings we drove to Hardin, had a quick lunch and pulled into the Little Bighorn National Battlefield.
The last visit we had there the temperature was over 100 degrees. Today, it was 97 degrees and there was more greenery than before. The park is changing as the Native American side of the story is better represented than before. There is a beautiful monument to the Indians and they are beginning to place markers where the warriors fell in battle. I actually did get a photo of the Little Big Horn River!
All day long we saw countless pronghorn antelope, cattle, hay fields and hay bales, irrigation equipment and beautiful mountain ranges. Our travel through the Crow and Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservations was a bit eye opening. We finished the day by driving into Spearfish South Dakota and seeing the Black Hills again off in the distance.
Will be doing our best to drive back home to Iowa Falls tomorrow. Hopefully, we have kept the blog interesting. In a day or two I will post the best of the best pictures of the trip then we will pick start up the blog again in a week or so when we head east to Philadelphia and Boston.
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