Friday, September 5, 2008

Now we are in Buffalo, Wyoming!

It's been a little more than a week since our last post, thanks to US National Parks with no WIFI or cheap RV resorts that boast of WIFI, but don't really deliver. Oh well, we won't dwell on that.

Since we last left you in Banff and Lake Louise, we travelled south to our last Canadian stop - Waterton Lakes, which is the northern part of Glacier National Park in Montana. This is a small park, but with great "punch" and views which we only began to capture on this trip. We were only able to stay there one night but stayed close by at a place called the Great Canadian Barn Dance in Hill Spring. This was a wonderful place where they served us Alberta Beef (& Chicken) and we danced to an old-time country band as late as we could stand it. We also saw the Northern Lights that night, and more stars than we have seen since we were in West Texas last winter.

After entering the US in Glacier National Park we stopped at West Glacier then travelled south to Kalispell and stopped in Butte for the evening. We went to the World Musuem of Mining there, then took the underground mine tour. I thought I would never thaw out from that 2 hour adventure. I can't imagine working in a mine for a living!! Well, that night we got SNOW in the mountains! We woke up to 28 degree weather and thank goodness, no frozen pipes. The next day we were on to Virginia City MT on the way to Yellowstone National Park. We stayed there for 2 days, even though we have been there before (20 years ago), then today we travelled east to Cody and on to Buffalo, WY. Tommorrow we will get to the Badlands. Who knows when we will be able to post again, so Happy Trails (as the say in Cowboy Country!)!