Ed Says - From Coeur D'Alene to Cody

Ed and Kay Update    

     It has now been 7 days since Darrell and Kathy began a separate route home and left us in Coeur d' Alene, ID.  However, we did see them again in Glacier Natl Park as our stay there overlapped one day with them as we did not stay in Coeur d' Alene an additional day as originally planned.

     We have missed the “Water Truck” and the company and security of our excellent traveling companions.  They are now on a fast track to the Forest River RV factory for some needed repairs and then on to Georgia.  We are on a slower track that will take us thru Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri and ultimately back to Georgia, probably in about 10 days.

     After leaving Glacier we stayed overnight in a Forest Service camp ground located on a nice reservoir just south of Bozeman.  This was quite a learning experience!  Access into and out of the camp ground was extremely tight for our camper.  Since we have grown into a larger trailer than we have ever had, it is apparent that we must now be very selective in Forest Service campgrounds.

     We next arrived in Cody, Wy and stayed in a commercial RV park.  This was an excellent stop and we extended our stay and extra day to view as much as we could.  The Buffalo Bill Cody Center of the West was a vast museum that included five separate museums; Plains Indians, Natural History of the West, Western Art, Gun Collection and Buffalo Bill Cody.  Each was very well done and I spent seven hours there, Kay only about four.  Later we went to a chuck wagon dinner, cowboy/country music show that was excellent, and finished off the night attending a rodeo.  It was a great day.  

     The next day we visited the Buffalo Bill Cody Dam built from 1905 to 1910.  At the time it was built it was the tallest dam in the world.  We then visited Old Town Cody which is a collection of over two dozen buildings built in the wild west days of the late 1800’s.  After lunch downtown we visited the Heart Mountain World War II Japanese American Confinement Site.  This site held over 11,000 of Japanese ancestry from 1942 thru 1945.  This was a very informative visit and we were there most of the afternoon.

Tomorrow we begin making tracks thru Nebraska.

Got an e-mail from Ed and kay just before posting this and they ran into a hail storm near Cheyenne, Wyoming - they survived it without any damage.