More rediscoveries; more Kalamities
Journal Day 4
7/28/04
Billings, MT to Butte, MT
We proceeded on . . .to the 3 Forks area. Interesting experience when we stop for gas. (We are learning to stop for gas anywhere we see a gas station. They are few and far between.) A truck with a horse trailer attached, towing a flatbed with a carriage was filling up next to us. I struck up a conversation with the woman filling up. She said they had just been in North Carolina, where her husband, who trains horses, had been working. They bought the carriage on the way home for him to use in his work. She showed me a newspaper clipping about him from a North Carolina newspaper. What really got my attention was his name. Ty Cobb. He is the grandson of Ty Cobb, the Detroit Tigers Hall of Famer. This, of course, resulted in further conversation. All the men in the family are still named either Ty or Wes. She didn't even know about the connection until after she married him!
To be at the Three Forks of the Missouri area was amazing, especially since L&C had been there 201 years and one day before us. Since we live where the Missouri ends; to see where it begins is pretty incredible. It is a beautiful area; still very much like it is described in the Journals. When I saw Lewis Rock, a large limestone formation he climbed to the top of on 7/27/1805, I was quite moved to be at the exact spot. He mapped the area from there. There are cliff swallows flying about; buffaloberry bushes all over (I've finally identified that bush after years in the mountains. We met some guys tubing at the confluence of the Madison and Jefferson Rivers. We told them to just hang in there; they would eventually get to St. Louis and could take in a ballgame. We stuck our hands and feet in the Missouri River where it begins, at the confluence of the Madison ,Jefferson and Gallatin Rivers, and Garrett skipped rocks.
We arrived at the Butte, MT campground KOA in plenty of time for a bison burger dinner and our first really relaxing evening.
Other memorable facts of the day: highest gas price so far--Billings, MT--$2.08/gallon!
Elevation at one point over 6000 '; sighted lst aspen trees.
7/28/04
Billings, MT to Butte, MT
We proceeded on . . .to the 3 Forks area. Interesting experience when we stop for gas. (We are learning to stop for gas anywhere we see a gas station. They are few and far between.) A truck with a horse trailer attached, towing a flatbed with a carriage was filling up next to us. I struck up a conversation with the woman filling up. She said they had just been in North Carolina, where her husband, who trains horses, had been working. They bought the carriage on the way home for him to use in his work. She showed me a newspaper clipping about him from a North Carolina newspaper. What really got my attention was his name. Ty Cobb. He is the grandson of Ty Cobb, the Detroit Tigers Hall of Famer. This, of course, resulted in further conversation. All the men in the family are still named either Ty or Wes. She didn't even know about the connection until after she married him!
To be at the Three Forks of the Missouri area was amazing, especially since L&C had been there 201 years and one day before us. Since we live where the Missouri ends; to see where it begins is pretty incredible. It is a beautiful area; still very much like it is described in the Journals. When I saw Lewis Rock, a large limestone formation he climbed to the top of on 7/27/1805, I was quite moved to be at the exact spot. He mapped the area from there. There are cliff swallows flying about; buffaloberry bushes all over (I've finally identified that bush after years in the mountains. We met some guys tubing at the confluence of the Madison and Jefferson Rivers. We told them to just hang in there; they would eventually get to St. Louis and could take in a ballgame. We stuck our hands and feet in the Missouri River where it begins, at the confluence of the Madison ,Jefferson and Gallatin Rivers, and Garrett skipped rocks.
We arrived at the Butte, MT campground KOA in plenty of time for a bison burger dinner and our first really relaxing evening.
Other memorable facts of the day: highest gas price so far--Billings, MT--$2.08/gallon!
Elevation at one point over 6000 '; sighted lst aspen trees.
posted by carol1211k | 11:27 PM
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