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    After leaving The Little Bighorn we traveled south (east) on I-90 back into Wyoming. We stayed the night in a Wal-Mart parking lot in Sheriden.           The next morning we traveled on to Sundance, WY. This is the location nearest to Devil's Tower.   More info in The Tower Columns newsletter.
       We walked the entire base of the Tower (1.3 miles) and passed by this handsome fellow and did not see it until another walker pointed it out to us.
We also watched a couple of mountain climbers on the 867 ft tower.
       For fellow "Science Fiction" buffs .... it was our
                               Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Ed & Johanne's
Notes from the road

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     Those sites will include;
                    The Little Big Horn Battlefield (Custers' last stand)
                     Devil's Tower
                     Mount Rushmore
                     Crazy Horse
                     Mammoth Springs
                    The Badlands of South Dakota
                    The Corn Palace
                    Camping on the banks of the Mississipi River
                    A visit with Sears friends Karen and Phil Thacher
                    A passing look at the "Sears Tower"
                    A visit to a huge flea market in Amish Indiana
                    Our stay at Jackson, Michigan's airport for a
                           Balloon show, air show and car show
                    A night in Ohio
                    Then New York - Vermont - New Hampshire - Maine
                    Visit to the Sears store in Auburn, Massachussets
                    A stop in Rhode Island and visit to Newport
                    AND home to Connecticut and FAMILY.

Devil's Tower, Wyoming

After our pleasant stay in Cody, Wyoming we headed north into Montana, intercepting Interstate 90 west of Billings. We continued on I-90 to Hardin, MT for one night. The following morning we went a short distance to the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument.
A very fascinating historical site, with plaques placed through -out the actual sites of various conflicts over the several days near the end of June 1876. In defiance of the whites intruding on their sacred lands, the Sioux and Cheyenne led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse were hunted by Colonel George Custer and the Seventh Cavalry along with troops under Captain Fredrick Benteen and Major Marcus Reno.
The infamous "Custers Last Stand" ensued with the greatest loses in American military history.

Custer's Last Stand - The Battle of Little Bighorn

After leaving Cody, Wyoming on June 19th, our travels were brisk and we covered a lot of distance (3,362 miles) and arrived at Northford, CT two months later on August 18th. The next few pages will fill in those miles and the site we visited.

2006

June 19th ... 21st