Day 35 stated with an excellent breakfast at the Hilton Garden Inn where we stayed last night. Babs veggie omelet was garnished with this yellow carnation.
The ride was supposed to be an easy short ride from Billings, Montana to Deadwood, South Dakota. Unfortunately the AAA lady had left a page out of the “trip tic” so when Babs calculated the mileage, and thus the travel time, she was about 175 miles short. At any rate, It was a beautiful sunny day. Our first stop was the Little Big Horn National Battlefield and cemetery.
There are a lot of Indian fighters buried there and those who have served in the military can still be buried there.
This is the site where Sitting Bull defeated the 7th Calvary Troop lead by General (actually Cornell)George Armstrong Custer.
The battle field stretches from Rose Bud River to the hill where Custer spoke the immortal words, “Will you look at all of those #@*# Indians!”, before the Indians slew him.
The black marker is where they found Custer’s body.
His actual remains are buried at West Point.
After leaving Little Big Horn, we headed toward Deadwood via US 212, the “Warrior Trail”. US 212 starts in the Sioux Reservation and continues on through the Northern Cheyenne reservation, 80+ miles total. The terrain is high and flat descending several thousand feet in a gradual descent providing simple but beautiful scenery.
Yellow flowering weeds are everywhere. We had lunch at the Cashway Café, aptly named because it was “cash only” no credit or debit cards.
The food was good!
The last photo before Deadwood, Babs took when I turned onto what I thought was just a gravel turn around in order to take care of a natural instinct. The turnout turned out to be a gravel road (?) complete with a 55 MPH speed limit sign and cows in the road.
Those of you who know me, know that my roulette number is black 17 and that I do quite well when plying it. Two years ago at the casino at Dover Downs in Delaware, I was trying to play a automated roulette machine and couldn't figure out how to place a bet on it. I went three times without a bet because the machine would not take my bet. Each of those three times another number came up. When I finally got the machine to take my $5 bet, my black 17 hit for a $185 pay out. Well the same thing happened here tonight! Thanks automated roulette machine. I gambled until ten here at Cadillac Jacks playing three card poker and still walked away $140 to the good. Babs played the slots and came out $20 to the good! The drinks here also were much more liberally offered than in Las Vegas.
Tomorrow we are off to Wounded Knee and will end up somewhere in Nebraska.
Babs Says: When something is used over and over in a short amount of time, it is bound to get sore. Still Working on Edelweiss Yellowstone.
Those of you who know me, know that my roulette number is black 17 and that I do quite well when plying it. Two years ago at the casino at Dover Downs in Delaware, I was trying to play a automated roulette machine and couldn't figure out how to place a bet on it. I went three times without a bet because the machine would not take my bet. Each of those three times another number came up. When I finally got the machine to take my $5 bet, my black 17 hit for a $185 pay out. Well the same thing happened here tonight! Thanks automated roulette machine. I gambled until ten here at Cadillac Jacks playing three card poker and still walked away $140 to the good. Babs played the slots and came out $20 to the good! The drinks here also were much more liberally offered than in Las Vegas.
Tomorrow we are off to Wounded Knee and will end up somewhere in Nebraska.
Babs Says: When something is used over and over in a short amount of time, it is bound to get sore. Still Working on Edelweiss Yellowstone.
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