On The Road
Dispatch 4 - Billings to Powder River Pass
Subject: On The road with Bob & Virginia
From: "Bob Schmitz" <robruth777@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 15:09:15 -0800
Wednesday, 10-17
From Little Big Horn on to Billings Montana, and down to Cody
Wyoming. We spent a day in the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, a
collection of five museums that has been called the Smithsonian of
the West, and it truly is. Among other things they have a collection
of over 11,000 firearms, 2,700 of which were on display.
Thursday, 10-18
Here in Wyoming, as well as in Montana and South Dakota, we saw many
trains pulling over 120 cars loaded with nothing but coal. I am told
each car carries 100 tons of coal.
Whereas the southern half of Wyoming is nothing much but treeless
l-o-o-o-o-o-ng rolling hills, much of the northern part of the state
is quite different.
The Ten Sleep Canyon, before it drops down to Buffalo, Wyoming, is
quite scenic, with the road passing by picturesque creeks and lakes,
and up beautiful snow covered mountains leading to the Powder River
Pass at 9,966 feet, with snow fences to keep the snow from drifting
onto the roads.
The land also has some of the best grass in the country, and there
are many large herds of Black Angus cattle. Very few agricultural
farms, though.
Photos in the following E-Mails.
Love to all from the homeless ones, Bob & Virginia
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