Retirement Travels

Our first glimpse of Devils Tower was hazed over by smoke from the wild fires in Canada but still, how can you not be in awe of this massive structure? The KOA we stayed at was right outside the park entrance. Here are a couple shots outside of the RV. We hiked from the lower parking lot up to and around the base of the tower, a total of 5 miles. It was great to a look at all sides! Devils Tower National Monument is a sacred place for over 20 American Indian Tribes. Along the trail you will find prayer bundles on tree branches. They encourage you not to take pictures but to breathe the air and think about someone you love. Although I took their advice and thought about all those I love, I needed one picture to share. Devils Tower is 867 ft. tall, the summit width is 180 x 300 ft. and formed 50 to 60 million years ago. The pictures below show what is called The Window. It is on the east side and one of the Tower's most distinctive features. Here is some interesting information about...

Friday we drove to Billings Montana and stayed at Yellowstone Cellars & Winery. We tasted a couple of their wines and had a glass with flatbread pizza that was really good. We decided to make some time pass on our drive the next morning so we counted the number of RV's and kept track of the different ones. We started at the I90/94 split in Billings MT to Sheridan WY. Here are the stats, we counted 90 RV's and 16 Horse trailers, we decided to count horse trailers because we were in Montana and Wyoming. 43 - Travel Trailers 10 - Class C 14 - 5th Wheels 3 - Pop Up's 3 - Class B 14 - Class A 3 - Truck Bed 

Our next adventure took us to Glacier National Park. What an amazing place and so, so beautiful!! We were able to obtain a pass for the Going-to-the-sun road the day before when they released them, it gave us 3 days to explore. We were in the park before 6am the first day. Our goal was to get to Logan's Pass before the parking lot filled up. There is road construction going on for the first 9 miles along Lake McDonald. I took so many pictures, too many to post so I will share some of the highlights. Just inside the park we saw a mama deer and her fawn.  McDonald's Falls Sacred Dancing Cascade I thought this was pretty interesting.  Bird Woman Falls Heaven's Peak Beautiful scenery In the highest elevations there was still thick drifts of snow Waterfalls in Logan's Pass We got to Logan's Pass around 8:30am, the parking lots were full and the Visitor Center didn't open until 9:00am so we decided to drive to the East Entrance, St. Mary's. This is Jackson Glacier...