Craig's blog

As expected, today was a long day of driving. We left Custer State Park at 6:30 this morning after we all showered, but without breakfast. We ate apples and then drove for 2 hours and stopped in Moorcroft, WY for breakfast as we had planned. The only place we could find was Donna’s Diner. As soon as we walked in, the girls looked at us as if to say, what’s with this place? The most striking thing was the smell and the fact that people were smoking in the restaurant. They couldn’t believe it. Other than that, it was our typical greasy spoon except for the fact that there were some fish tanks that entertained the kids while they waited for their food.

We drove on and stopped at the Little Bighorn battlefield memorial for a picnic lunch. We were surprised to find that it was the 132nd anniversary of the battle to the day and lots of festivities were planned. There were many Native Americans there to celebrate (it was the last significant victory by the Native Americans in defense of their land).

After lunch and a quick walk around the museum, we drove on across Montana. We didn’t get to Bozeman until 6:45 PM, which is very late for us. All the girls were beat and cranky. I managed to get the kids to the pool so they could burn off some energy.

Tomorrow is another relatively early morning. We’ve got some chores/errands to do and then we’ll drive south on Highway 191 to hopefully find a nice campground (instead of the KOA we’re in tonight) and to go white water rafting.

While I’ll keep writing entries over the next few days, they probably won’t get posted for quite awhile as we’re going to be doing more primitive camping. We plan to spend Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights in Glacier National Park and then some time in northern Idaho. We'll see when we can next connect...