Category Archives: Tour of America

Decided to drive through Colorado on our way home. It was Tammy’s suggestion to do so because of the fall colors and we were not disappointed, we hit just at the right time. Camped by a little creek south of … Continue reading →

I didn’t expect to see much at the Crazy Horse Memorial because I knew that the statue depicting the Sioux war chief atop a horse was far from complete. I was pleasantly surprised to find a state of the art … Continue reading →

Yes, Custer State Park in South Dakota was named after the famous General who died in the Battle of the Little Bighorn. It turns out Custer led his 7th calvary unit to South Dakota in 1874 and discovered gold in … Continue reading →

The next stop on our trip was to Mt Rushmore National Memorial in the Black Hills of South Dakota. We were planning to go during the day until a camp host at Devil’s Tower told us they just started doing … Continue reading →

The other attraction that I wanted to see in Wyoming besides Yellowstone was Devil’s Tower National Monument, made famous in the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind. We found a nice campsite in the only campground in the monument. … Continue reading →

Finally got back to Yellowstone National Park for the first time since 1970. Some things have changed: it was common to see bears in 1970 because tourists fed them from their cars and the park dump was open to the … Continue reading →

I went into Butte, Montana today to visit the World Museum of Mining. Butte is famous for its copper mines. At one time Butte supplied 75 percent of americas copper. They had a re-created mining town similar to Bodie that … Continue reading →

More pictures added below. Enjoy. We made it to Glacier National Park where we were welcomed by cooler weather and rain which cleared out the forest fire smoke 🌞 We found another low cost ($9) campground on a beautiful lake … Continue reading →

This lake we stayed at for a week is normally a beautiful 90 mile long body of water that straddles the USA-Canada border. Unfortunately, smoke from the many forest fires in the west mars the view. We camped at three … Continue reading →