South Dakota II

Other things seen in South Dakota include Mt Rushmore, the badlands and Pierre. We then arrived in Minnesota, where we will be staying for a while so you may not hear from us.

South Dakota

While going through South Dakota we visited the area where my great grandfather homesteaded, Caputa. We saw the kind of houses, sod houses, that they, according to family history, lived in.

Little Big Horn

Because Barb is a western history fan we had to stop at the Little Big Horn National Monument to see where Custer made his last stand.

Montana

We travelled through Montana, stopped in Billings.

Wyoming

We travelled through Wyoming.

Yellowstone II

Also they have lots of animals and bubbly things.

Yellowstone

Our first day at Yellowstone was our anniversary. There are so many things to see - waterfalls, Old Faithful, canyons, snow.

Cousins

One of the things we have been doing on our trip is making contact with relatives we haven't seen in a while. While on the west coast I saw several cousins that I hadn't seen in 30-40 years. You don't know what it is going to be like seeing somebody you haven't seen for that long. But it was great, we had a lot of fun talking about things that happened when we were kids and catching up on what has happened in our lives. Here are three of them:

Bill Ringlbauer

Marianne Murphy

Pat Tunstall

Waterfalls

Since leaving Seattle we have seen a lot of waterfalls.





Snoqualmie Falls













Shoshone Falls













Idaho Falls













Upper Mesa Falls













Lower Mesa Falls

Idaho

We visited Idaho, their capitol was being remodeled, Boise has an old penitentiary, all we could find.

Leavenworth

Our first stop going east from Seattle was the town of Leavenworth. They have remade their town into a Bavarian village. There are a lot of shops etc. as well as five German restaurants. As we were only going to be there for one night we couldn't eat in all of them but we drank in all and ate in one. Still none of them came close to the Bavarian Grill and the accordion player was definitely not an Alan, but we had a lot of fun.

Seattle

We have left Seattle, heading east. Here are some of our favorite pictures.