What a wonderful day! We are so enjoying this beautiful country and each other! As soon as we crossed into Montana from Wyoming we noticed something...Montana has "water", lots of it. We saw planted fields. No I can't tell you what they were, but they were irrigating and the numbers of black cows were considerably smaller than in WY. We stopped at the Custer Museum and the Little Big Horn Nat'l Battle Field. Both were quite good. Having been at Normandy Beach in France, I expected that same oppressiveness of death. But it was much lighter, perhaps because the numbers killed were hugely fewer. The sense of reverence for loss of life was present as we walked around the area.
Then we were off to Billings
and Bozeman. The 
countryside was amazing. We started seeing grass and leafy trees, with rivers and lakes. The mountains were bigger and many were covered similarly to the Black hills. I noticed that all the trees were leaning a bit to the east, all the way up the mt. Maybe from the winds that charge through the area. We fought strong winds and Curt did an amazing job!!!! Then we saw the Rockies - WOW!!! We also noticed that it seemed that many scotch pine were dead or dying all over the mts. Apparently, there is a bug that is killing off these pines at an frightening rate. Don't be too surprised to hear of large forest fires in the southern parts of Montana in the future. We arrived at my 3rd cousin's once-removed, Liz, about 4:30. We have never met, and in fact, she and Curt have been e-mailing for months doing Horan (mine) geneology. She really has a passion for geneology, working on all her relations and her husband's too. We thoroughly enjoyed our time with them exploring cemeteries and photos, listening to their stor
ies and adventures. Liz and 
Jim were wonderfully hospitable to us. They even blessed us with great home cooking! Didn't realize how much we missed it. So far we have traveled 2000 miles in 5 days. We have seen gorgeous country and met terrific people. God is blessing us so-o-o well!
Enjoying retirement and adventuring,
Vicki
For those of you who are confused, Curt and I are both blogging.
Then we were off to Billings
and Bozeman. The 
countryside was amazing. We started seeing grass and leafy trees, with rivers and lakes. The mountains were bigger and many were covered similarly to the Black hills. I noticed that all the trees were leaning a bit to the east, all the way up the mt. Maybe from the winds that charge through the area. We fought strong winds and Curt did an amazing job!!!! Then we saw the Rockies - WOW!!! We also noticed that it seemed that many scotch pine were dead or dying all over the mts. Apparently, there is a bug that is killing off these pines at an frightening rate. Don't be too surprised to hear of large forest fires in the southern parts of Montana in the future. We arrived at my 3rd cousin's once-removed, Liz, about 4:30. We have never met, and in fact, she and Curt have been e-mailing for months doing Horan (mine) geneology. She really has a passion for geneology, working on all her relations and her husband's too. We thoroughly enjoyed our time with them exploring cemeteries and photos, listening to their stor
ies and adventures. Liz and 
Jim were wonderfully hospitable to us. They even blessed us with great home cooking! Didn't realize how much we missed it. So far we have traveled 2000 miles in 5 days. We have seen gorgeous country and met terrific people. God is blessing us so-o-o well!Enjoying retirement and adventuring,
Vicki
For those of you who are confused, Curt and I are both blogging.
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