Canada to Rocky Mountain National Park Colorado

Bucky with beard shaved and eyebrows plucked (ouch!) - good thing he is drinking his Pigs Ass Porter from Belt Montana.

Dedicated to all us women who enjoy beer! One of the 5 bars in Dayton Wyoming population 697.

Kirk hitting another bad drive at the Kendrick course in Sheridan Wyoming

A view of the highway over the Big Horn Mountains

Crazy kite jumpers!

Kirk pointing out Dayton Wyoming from an observation point on the Big Horn Mountain hwy

The Big Powder Boys at the Art Festival in Sheridan Wyoming

The Traveling Salvation Show packed up early and headed back to the USA early Thursday, June 30. Up until Kirk tasted some Montana beer in Glacier, we were planning to spend the night in a rest stop in Montana. After enjoying a 6 pack of Pigs Ass Porter brewed in Belt Montana, Kirk decided we would head to Belt Montana to see the brewery (actually to visit the tasting room). He was determined to get there before they closed at 4:00 PM. It was a long travel day and we pulled into our campsite at 3:05. We unhitched in record time and perched at the tasting room until 5:30. We bought some beer to take with us and the bartender/brewmaster/beer line guy, Martin educated us on the fishing in Montana. We spent enough that he kept pouring us more samples! Belt Montana has a population of 633 and like all small towns, has 3 bars and two churches. We ate a great burger at the local bar that Martin recommended. He actually invited us to come back some day and stay in his cabin so we could fish. After driving over 420 miles from Canada and consuming mass quantities of beer, we went to bed early. Kirk actually only made it to 8:00 PM. We were up early and pulled out of the campsite at 7:00 AM (in pouring rain) since we had another long drive across Montana to a small town in northern Wyoming.

Dayton Wyoming is about 20 miles from Sheridan Wyoming and is at the base of the Big Horn Mountains. We stayed there two days to rest from the back to back travel days. While we were there we discovered that Sheridan was having a Big West Art Festival. We listened to the Big Powder Boys band play some good old fashioned country music. We also played a round of golf at the Sheridan city course - Kendrick. Lots of wind helped us make good excuses for our bad golf game.

The Big Horn mountains were really cool and the country around Sheridan and Dayton is lovely. Although we did not hike in the Big Horns, we drove through some of them and pulled over to enjoy the views. We came across a couple of folks who were kite jumpers. Imagine jumping off a mountain with only the wind and your guts to get you down! I had never been in this part of Wyoming so the visit was a nice experience for me.

We left on Sunday morning to travel to southern Wyoming. Our ultimate goal was to get to Rocky Mountain National Park. The distance between Dayton Wyoming and Rocky Mountain was too far for a one day trip so we camped in Riverside Wyoming - population 59. It was a great campground and I certainly would consider staying there longer. It is located on the west side of the Snowy Range. The excitement for that one day was doing laundry and working on the laptop with a wireless connection. (how do you spell geek??). I did visit with several people who had their own travel adventures to share and to me it was most enjoyable to hear other folks' experiences.

We packed up early on Monday and headed for Rocky Mountain National Park. Patti, Kelbie and Brady were already on the road to meet us there for several days.