Earache

Today was much better some off road / dirt road riding in the middle of nowhere. My kind of riding...

All of the US soldiers were buried in a mass grave and this marker was installed on top of them. Custer was later reburied at West Point Military Academy....

Lots of US horses got killed as well...

There are a few markers for Indians as well, but not very many....

Custer's arrogance cost him and his men their lives. What an asshole....

Custer and the remaining gang made it to distant hilltop only to be surrounded by thousands of pissed off Indians. They all fell here at the Last Stand...

Yesterday consisted of crossing Montana at 90 mph+ in rain and strong winds. What a party that was. Didn't take too many pics. But I did get to stop at the Little Big Horn Battlefield site, where infamous General George Armstrong Custer got his ass handed to him by Sitting Bull. Seems George and his gang of about 400 soldiers thought it was a good idea to attack 10,000 Lakota Indians on their home turf. Didn't work out well for George, et al. There are markers where each soldier fell as the Lakota chased them for 5 miles across the hills, culminating in Custer's Last Stand on hilltop where they were wiped out. Small groups of markers where the first soldiers died...

More tomorrow. I'm headed out to find some food in this no restaurant havin' town.

Got to my hotel at 5:00 PM. Lucky thing - it was packed and I was lucky to get a room. It;s a crap room, but a room nonetheless....

Are ya sure there's "No Services" ?

There ain't shit out here....

I really wanted to get on this dirt road and see where it went, but no time...

And then the real fun starts - 200 miles of this to get to my hotel for the night. Barely had enough fuel....

Another hundred miles up the road and I passed the Virginian Hotel; built in 1901 at a train stop. The train no longer stops but the hotel is still open...

They had a little abandoned Fossil Museum on premises. Looked like someone was trying to shore it up with steel I beams....

Abandoned house number 3 was about 100 miles down the road from the last one. Stone construction this time...

Across the street was an abandoned school. It was fenced off and I couldn't get closer. Out in the middle of freakin' nowhere....

Abandoned house number 2. This was cool as I could get close and look at the inside of it....

Yup - until my bud Todd meets up with me somewhere in Montana. Dunno when that'll be, hopefully by Saturday. He's coming over from Missouri.

Into Wyoming. Most US states have a big welcome sign as you enter the state. Not Wyoming; tiny little sign that looks like a road sign. Nice one Wyoming. (It was really dark at this point so my flash kinda ruined the pic)

Saw my first abandoned house, but I was trying to outrun the cold front and rain so I shot a pic on the fly...

Crossing into Wyoming, the weather went to shit. Strong winds, temperature dropped back into the 40's and rain. Perfect....

Had to stop at the Continental Divide sign yet again....

Yup, summer's pretty much over high in the mountains where we live. Have to go low for heat until next year.

Lots of flowers pushing up through the burn scar though....