After an uneventful drive on Wednesday, we arrived in Bozeman, Montana. A surprisingly delightful town. Laid out in a grid pattern which made it easy to explore. Bozeman is also a college town with lots of college age kids everywhere. Our campground is fine and we arrived with only a two day reservation. I made the reservations months ago and left an extra day of travel from Bozeman to Yellowstone as snow could have been a problem. Now we find ourselves in a travel dilemma. The campground in Bozeman only has a reservation for two days and we aren't scheduled for Yellowstone until Saturday. The campground is sold out because of the annual softball tournament. A fund raiser for the town. We would have had to leave this campground and look for a Bureau of Land Management space, if available. At the last minute, there was a cancellation and the camp host has an extra day for us. So today instead of traveling to find another space for the night, we will hit some local attractions, get gas, hit Costco, and prepare for the trip tomorrow to Yellowstone. Temps in the park are 70's during the day and high 20's in the night. We are prepared with our heater and warm clothing. Gracie is certainly slowing down with age. Yesterday she was only able to walk so slowly that I had to carry her as we explored the shops on main street. However, she is a trooper and when we went back to the camper for some relief from the 84 degrees in Bozeman, she promptly fell asleep on the bed. Fortunately, our camper A/C was up to the job and shortly we were comfortable at 72 degrees inside. Later took out the grill and hamburgers were the evenings fare. Today more exploring and shopping.
Day 24 05/25/18 Our last day in Great Falls and we are compelled to see where the name came from. Back in the car and out to the middle of nowhere to see one of the friggin falls. Seems the Louis and Clark expedition found this falls. However in the early 1900's the city fathers thought it would be a great idea to build a dam and make electricity. Here is a pic of their efforts. From here we went to the First Peoples Buffalo jump. This remarkable geologic area has been used for thousands of years by local tribes to drive buffalo up and over the hills to kill them for food and their hides. One of the interesting facts we learned was that the natives for thousands of years were barefoot. The horse was not introduced to North America until the 1700's. It was said that native tribes from all over the area came to use the buffalo jump. Supposedly there is 18' of buffalo debris still buried beneath the hill. Not much...
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