Rob Blog: June 2012

Our Lewis & Clark Expedition

June 2012

(I went where Will towed me to!)

Will has always dreamed of following the Lewis & Clark route along the Missouri River.

It was beautiful and we had cool weather for most of the trip!

We first visited Amy, Steve, & Girls. They are all getting cuter each time we see them so it was hard to leave them. Maddie is the cutest baby!

We went through Kamas, Utah through the Uinta's into Wyoming.

Here we are playing golf @ the Rendezvous Meadows in Pinedale, Wyoming with the Wind River Mt. Range of the Rocky Mt. behind us. A little chilly but beautiful. There was a big rock on the golf course where someone was buried. The heading said here lies so and so. His motto was "Play It Where It Lies" pretty clever.

Here is the Jackson Lake below the Teton Mts. This is the head water of the Snake River.

Here is the Rushing of Great Waters of the Yellowstone River!

I love the Water Falls here.

We got to see a rare sight of a Mama Bear & her 2 Cubs running along the road.

The Park Ranger was telling everyone to "Get In Your Cars!"

One of our favorite statutes of Sacagewea and her baby Pompey.

We are in Livingston, Montana

This is Little Big Horn the place where Custer had his last stand.

Custer led 250 soldiers of the 7th Calvary against 5,000 Indians.

Not so good odds!

Dear Friends Pam & Vern Robison on their mission on a ranch (in the middle of nowhere) in Montana.

Will and I stayed in this cabin! Pretty delux! So good to see them!

Will shot at the Quigley Rifle Match in Forsyth, MT.

There were 635 shooters from all over the US. There were 6 targets and you could shoot 8 times at each target. Out of 48 shots, Will hit 29 and came in 45th place.

He was pretty excited to be in the top half of the top 100 shooter!

Here we are at Mt. Rushmore.
We really enjoyed the history of the making of the Monument and the
Men on the Mountain.

These next two pictures are in Belle Fourche, South Dakota

They claim this is the Geographic Center of the Uniter States

This was one of my favorite places: Fort Abraham Lincoln, North Dakota

This is where Custer left from to go over to Little Big Horn.

This was his home and his wife was there with him.

He left and never returned!

This is right along the Missouri River.

Here is the Bismarck, North Dakota Temple

This is the Mandan Fort where Lewis & Clark spent their 1st winter with the Mandan Indians.

They started from St. Louis, MO

This is a bridge over the Missouri River in Fort Benton, MT.

There was a wedding going on and it was so fun to watch!

Loved it!

Lewis, Clark, & Sacagawea Monument in Fort Benton, MT

Replica of the Keel Boats used by L & C as they pulled them upstream.

"Giant Springs" flowing up and into the Missouri @ Great Falls, MT

So beautiful and clear!

The Ryan Dam on the Missouri is the largest of the 5 Falls in Great Falls, MT

L & C had to hike around the falls 17 miles to get back on the river again.

This is "The First Peoples Buffalo Jump" The Indians would herd the Buffalo off these cliffs to their death. Killing 5,000 at a time. Will knows how they lured them off the edge, ask him sometime!

Will is up to his ankles of the head waters of the Missouri River. He is officially in the Missouri River here. The picture below shows the three rivers converging to form the Missouri. The rivers are the Maddison, Jefferson, & Galleton. The Missouri River is the 2nd largest river in the US and it flows into the Mississippi River.