WYOMING

we arrived where tyler is doing an intership for the summer..in a place called ten sleep, wy..he is working for the forest service learning how to fight forest fires (on news today the tragic loss of all the hot shot firefighters god bless) but tyler doesn't want to be on that team...he had a place all set for us in a volunteer rv site with full hook-ups right in shooting distance of his cabin...after setting up lar took a look at the rig and the tires/wheels as he always does and on the right side the tires werfe very close together and after getting under the rig decided we could very well have a possible problem so ;lar and; tyler did some research when we went into ten sleep for pizza and found on our way was a tire and brake shop that we were told did very good work but it was in worland..a change of plans for us was then to move on sunday instead of mon and have tyler follow us off the mountain in case of a problem so he agreed to do so... off the mountain and into worla

nd with NO problem thank god...time for a museum and a tenderloin vension dinner for tyler and his friend adam who came along for the adventure.... sunday morning we invited tyler over for breakfast and when he arrived he said want to see a moose...of course so off we went to see a young bull moose feeding in the swamp..could almost jumped on his back for a ride...lar also so a mule deer with her two fawns earlier..a great visit with tyler and some beautiful scenery and the only way to really appreciate it to see for yourself...it changes as you go around a curve high cliffs to desert looking landscape..in the desert there are lots of oil wells (ugh) painted the desert color to hide them ahahahhaha...oh I know that we all need gas and oil but it sure takes away from the landscape... lar called the tire place and we have an appointment at 1pm today then go from there as th what they might think our problem is... pictures somehow I goofed and it got mixed up ..mountains--hail/snow on sat might--look close and you might see a mule deer--moose

DINNER-MUSICAL

last night we went out to dinner for steak..it is cooked on a pitchfork in hot oil (fondue) a different way to cook it in steak form..now to have it cut up in bite size pieces is something we have had before..it was good (I must not as so that was are big night out here in the west.. cooking the steak--elk on the hill side--the group--tumbling act that have been on America's got talent--ellen degeners show--and several other shows

MEDORA, ND

this is truly a western feeling town...yesterday we toured teddy roosvelt national park and today we went to a cowboy museum...we found it to be most interesting and i learnt something about the wild horses we saw yesterday..they are offspring of the indian ponies from the 1880's--small but sturdy..after 2 hrs we decided to walk around town,, we just got the feel that it is from the old west..can you believe not one stop light and very few stop signs...everyone goes rather thru town all thou it is not a long distance to go thru..maybe a mile...a friendly little town..lar and I had on different t-shirts I had the bourbon trial and lar had on Lucy's Jamestown one...when we walked into several of the shops people remarked about them and of course struck up conversations regarding them..one man we talked to some time about the bourbon trail as they are heading to ten to work at amazon for a couple of months along with 600 other who have rv...working thru the holiday season...they have done it for 5 yrs and said it was fun and they were treated good...full hook-ups and 10$ an hr...also you get aa 10% discount if you buy something... tonight we are going off to a pitchfork fondue steak dinner (yes they really cook your steak on a pitchfork )---then a cowboy musical on top of a mountain (hill) i'll let ou know all about it hopefully tomorrow if we have Wi-Fi..planning on meeting up with tyler sat and we do know that he doesn't have any Wi-Fi nor cell phone coverage so we are going into hiding

outside statue----just a model of the local saloon--lar's uncle muck-aluck ahhahahahaha

TEDDY ROOSVELT NATIONAL PARK

this morning we headed off the the national park here in Medora, nd and spent several hrs there..first we started by going thru the museum-then on to a ranger talk about teddy r cabin-of course a movie-then a tide thru the park... we saw wild horses--praire dog villages-buffalo--took a couple of short walks.. tomorrow we have reservations to go to the pitchfork steak dinner and then the cowboy musical..(our anniversary dinner)..so the days have been fun filled here in north Dakota pictures are as follows...wild horses --wild buffalo--and of course prairie dogs..

NORTH DAKOTA

we have traveled across north Dakota and have seen lots of different sights...somr rolly polly land-large fields planted with corn-soy beans- and also the further west we drove we saw plenty sights of oil rigs and oil activity...in the larger cities lots of construction of what appeared to be motels-apartment buildings-malls...then on down the road we saw lots of oil activity--water trucks-just trucks- and lots of different appearing oil activity..some of it not a pretty sight....taking away from the natural beauty of the areas..someone is making some money here and that's for sure...roads going what looks like no where off into the sunset and we think it must be some oil stuff going on that we can't see... also in north Dakota if you want/need to fill and prescription don't look for Wal-Mart-rite air-walgreens- to fill them..yu can only fill scripts in a private owned pharmacy...so much for having are scripts at Wal-Mart.....so we need to be near a Wal-Mart in 6 days to have one of lar's scripts filled... go figure who would have ever thought... great trip so far as we are now in medora, nd right outside teddy roosvelt national park--planning on being here three nights..and we are now on mountain time so another adjustment in going to be needed..

LAKE SUPERIOR

we met up with tom and Christine in iron river , mi and decided to satay only one night where we were and move on to up the peninsula of lake superior to copper country..there were a couple of museum that tom wanted lar to see...so off we went to linden lake and small town park on the lake..off we then went to look at the museums but first had to have breakfast at the elks club..we travel thru gods country and saw many trees ahahha sure wonder what they do for work and do their shopping not much around...so some really beautiful country thru the fog and rain..lots of rain and fog...

the pictures are as follows..a beautiful falls we came across the road -eat your hearts out tug hill--Christine dancing with a miner--lar a happy camper finally he had a pastie (a miner lunch)--duel purpose gift from Christine can be used as a lap robe or a table cover.---a beautiful piece and Christine's ahndy work...

SIGHTSEEING-UP

yesterday we spent the day touring around iron river-a museum-indian mounds-and points east-west-north and south on the up..tom being the tour guide as we were in boyhood country..then out for pizza at a place that was there when he was younger had pizza mm good.. today we move on to linden lake and near calmut and the copper mine country..back in the good days all the town were booming bgut just like so many other things there was a crash and now some of the towns are almost ghost towns.. we also found the first national park stamps on this trip..toured the museum most interesting and well worth the timeto get here.. it has been rainy and foggy all day..too bad as the scenery would have been spectular..