Antelope Freeway (twelve miles*)

Yesterday we drove from Missoula to Billings, MT. This turned out to be only about halfway across what turns out to be a very large state. We ate dinner al fresco at a really good steak house in Billing's historic district. Great food. BTW, it turns out that every town and city in Montana and Wyoming (and probably Colorado) has an "historic district". I think that this just an excuse for not cleaning up the downtown areas.

Today was our big travel day - about 500 miles from Billings to Cheyenne, WY. We still found time to stop for a couple of hours at the Little Big Horn Battlefield. It used to be called the Custer Battlefield but the Sioux, Arapaho, Crow, and other indian nations that were involved in the battle got really pissy over that name so, in a fit of political correctness, the name was changed in 1991. They have done a really good job in explaining and making sense of what was a very chaotic series of skirmishes. Well worth a visit. The rest of the day was spent on the road and we arrived in Cheyenne about 7pm. Not much to report about the drive except that we saw many herds of pronhorm antelope. OK, so no big deal, but we thought it was cool enough that we kept pointing them out to each other for 500 miles. Like I said, there was not a lot to see in Wyoming.

carol here...I just loved the geological formations-hills of rock, shale piles, carved butte tops that looked like forts or castles with their tops cut off. While trying to explain some of the formations to Mike his only comment was that Geology was the "easy" science for slackers in college...well, I think he appreciated my tutorial as the drive did get a little boring at times. My absolute favorite section of the 500 miles was the Montana sections in the north. Wyoming is definately flat....looking forward to Garden of the Gods tomorrow.

We had another great meal tonight at the Capitol Cafe in downtown Cheyenne. Things were going great until Carol pointed out that since Cheyenne was once Dick Cheney's home town, that he probably had eaten here. That sort of put me off my dinner.

*Firesign Theatre - look it up