The Week in Review

Monday: Yellowstone National Park Part I

Tuesday: We finally found a campground that lets us wash the rig and it needed it badly. The roof took a while, but by early afternoon we were done. Of course, just before a rain storm came and gave the rig a final rinse. :-)

Wednesday: We drove to Bozeman to pick up meds, got the oil changed in the car and went shopping for new pillows, which was long overdue. It was a beautiful drive up to Bozeman and on the way back we checked out a model log cabin. Doug has been interested in them and we got a quick lesson on how well they are build and how easy the upkeep supposedly is.

Thursday: The campground invited everybody for a 4th of July picnic. They provided the burgers, hot dogs, buns and condiments and the campers all brought salads and deserts. We met some new people and a good time was had by all.

Friday: We decided to check out Earthquake Lake. "On the evening of August 17th, 1959, the area just west of Yellowstone National Park experienced an earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter scale. At the time it was the strongest earthquake recorded in the United States. It killed twenty-eight people; many were buried beneath the 80 million tons of dolomite that crashed down upon a sleeping Forest Service campground, others drowned when the Madison River, displaced by the slide, engulfed their tents." You can still see were the landslide was.



Saturday: We decided to go up to Virginia City and Nevada City in Montana. The idea of "panning for gold" got my attention. Virginia City is an old gold mining town, well preserved with the original buildings, starting with the General Store, the Pharmacy, the Blacksmith, etc. We took a nice walk up and down main street and went on to Nevada City for lunch and some gold panning. The lunch was good, the gold panning was not what I had expected, so we decided not to do it. However, the town had a very unique attraction. They have a building with an outstanding collection of old time music boxes, pianos and organs. You could play each one for 25 cents up to a dollar. It was pretty cool, except when the tour bus stopped and all the kids decided to play them all at the same time.