Pet bison

This big guy was in front of our cabin the first day

Camping tonight

We found a great little tent site at a state park near Red Lodge. No camp fires are allowed at the moment so we are ordering a large pizza for dinner (and breakfast).

We have been using a solid fuel pocket stove to make morning coffee and that does not fall under the fire restriction.

We already paid and left my tent set up. The tent is about eight feet from the creek. I will post a picture if I remember.

Beer in the creek, cold pizza for breakfast, a woman who loves me and a Harley; what more could one man dare ask for?

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Top of the world

We left Yellowstone and we are near the top of the Beartooth Hwy at around 10,000 ft. Trish is having a ball looking for cool rocks and taking pictures. We saw a momma black bear with two cubs up close before we left. We will have lots more pictures when we can get the photos off the camera and some cool riding video once I figure out how to do it.

Next stop is Red Lodge MT to get a meal and start thinking about were we will spend the night. Word has it that Billings is full up with people that couldn't get lodging at Yellowstone. If we can get a tent campsite below 6,000 ft we will probably jump on it.

One big damn canyon

Below Tower Falls

Say what?

Used to be a silver mine. Now an interesting museum.

Update

So today is Sunday and I am going to catch up on the last couple of days. Friday we rode from McCall to Boise. Since it was a short day we decided to go by way of Lowman. The road from Lowman to Boise is a twisty mountain pass and was a great ride. That was the day of our dinner in Idaho City Stayed at the Super 8 and got laundry done.
The next day (Saturday) we retraced the route from Boise to Lowman but at Lowman we rode east to Stanley. I was surprised how many near empty campsites there were. In Stanley we had an espresso milkshake made by hippies. From there we went to Challis and stayed at the worst place ever. It was so bad that I named it the Bates motel. The curtains were literally rotting off the rods and the towels had holes.
Today we saw the craters of the moon national monument. It is a very weird place that I could never do justice to in words. When we are at a computer and can get the photos off Trish's camera we will share them. Today we are staying in a nice motel in Arco. The town's one claim to fame is being the first "city" in the world to be powered by atomic energy. There are several atomic labs / sites in the desert outside of town. We will be going that way tomorrow but we have a long drive to Yellowstone and I don't care about it enough to make a side trip. I don't think there is cell or wi fi in Yellowstone so it may be a few days till my next post.

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I need to talk to the mayor about these weeds around my sign