Friday, July 18th

Dennis and Donna Pittman took down their camper and headed for Glacier National Park and would return the following Tuesday or Wednesday.

Rick, Patti, Stan, Tammy, George, Peggy, Sherrill, Ben and Carla all headed for Bear Tooth Pass and then Yellowstone before heading for home.


Steve, Connie, Bob, Pam, John and Rosalee, after breakfast, took down camp and headed for home. As we were leaving Billings, Connie saw a hawk flying over carrying a snake in it's talons. Connie told Rosalee over the CB "we better hope it doesn't drop it." I am sure Rosalee was thinking, gee, watching for snakes on the ground and falling from the sky???"


We stopped at a trading post said to be the begining point of Custer's Last Stand. The tomb of the Unknown Soldier was there, as well as statues of Custer and Sitting Bull. There was a trading post/gas station there as well.
Gillette, Wyoming was a busy place with the BMW convention being held there. .

We saw several antelope, prairie dogs along with the rocky bluffs, sagebrush, bales of hay, cattle and horses.

We went through Wyoming and could see Devil's Tower in the distance. We arrived at Spearfish, South Dakota, but again, hotels were full now because of a corvette convention. We went back to Bel Fouche and stayed in a quaint western style motel, Sunset Motel, at the edge of town. The rooms were clean but cozy. We went for a quick evening meal and got back to the motel, covered the bikes, right before the wind and rain hit. At least the rain seemed to be in the evening, although it was warm enough we might have welcomed a little rain as we rode.