Friday June 22 in Billings, MT

Friends:


Just a short note to let you know that all is well on this end.  We spent Wednesday and part of Thursday driving through Yellowstone.  We ended up staying Wednesday night in West Yellowstone at the very comfortable White Buffalo Inn.  Not fancy, but clean and much cheaper than the going rate of $200 in West Yellowstone.  And it did have a few rooms available.  We booked it on the internet from Jackson.

These pre-war White buses are street rods:  they run on modern
Ford truck chasses.  They are very well done.

Yellowstone was fabulous.  We enjoyed Old Faithful and the usual tourist gawks at buffalo, elk, and deer.  No bears yet.  The damage from fires is pretty evident, but this is still one of the prettiest places in the country.  Lots of geothermal activity, if only we could capture that energy!  Yes, it is sort of like Disneyland, but the park is huge and handles its crowds fairly well.  Don't miss it.

The Healey is doing great and took us easily to Billings and the first day of touring here.  We went to the site of Custer's Last Stand on the Little Big Horn.  I was impressed with the quality of the presentation here.  Very respectful and special.  I felt badly for the Indians, but I guess we took their land fair and square.  How could you stop the crush of such a sophisticated civilization and should you?



Just a few of the tour cars.  They came from all over the country

We have taken many pictures.  I will try to get some of them integrated into these posts when I get the chance.  It has been hard to find the time to write this blog, our days are pretty full and getting fuller.  So posting will probably continue to be irregular.

I found a couple of broken spokes today on our right front wheel.  I will probably just deploy the spare and see how that works.  I did bring a few spare spokes, so I can replace the bad ones later.  Not all that easy, I need to remove the tire to do that. 

Miss you all!

Bill and Nance.