We are thinking of you today and telling stories, sharing memories of you! John has been waking up early so he’s getting the coffee going and watching the sunrise. It’s really nice to have coffee ready and waiting. ;) We took our time repacking today and regrouped on things. When we packed in Badlands, we didn’t get everything back in to the crates. When we packed today, we had a little space to add something more. We stopped one more time at the grocery for supplies – headed to nowhere in the Big Horn Forest! Goodbye Custer...
First stop Deadwood to feed Marvin and John’s curiosity. A lot of the buildings are very old and you can see hints of the old town but it’s also very much touristy. There was a “gun fight” posted for 2:00 in the street. Turns out it was really just a little bit of the Wild Bill story and one gun shot which I think must have been the shot that killed Wild Bill. We couldn’t hear a lot from our outside seating at a restaurant. It was an American grill type food and I don’t even remember the name – neither good nor bad.
John wanted to look for a book by Craig Johnson about Walt Longmire. We just finished watching the series on Netflix, so decided start one of the books as we drove through Gillette where the author signs books at the library during Longmire days. It was fun to listen and drive through the area of inspiration for the books. The drive up the mountain into the Big Horns is breath taking even with the sun setting in our eyes. We spotted a few mule deer and antelope along the way. Arrival at camp – 8:08PM. It was a race to get camp set up and dinner (sandwiches) prepared before it got dark. There was time for "King of the Hill" during set up.
The landscape for all three of our campgrounds so far has been very different from one another. This one has big pines like Custer but different kind because the branches to very near to the ground where the others were 20 feet off the ground. The kids started a fire – it’s cold here. Kids got hammocks all set up and climbed in just as we started to see lightening in the distance and then heard thunder. We were able to watch the thunderhead roll in across the landscape as we quickly put the rain fly onto the tent, fortunately already set up, and move the kids into the tent. Parker has a hammock rain fly so chose to stay put. It was a great sleep with rain pelting the tent.
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