All loaded and ready to go! We spent the first night in
Hailey, ID after having dinner with my friend Viki in Bellevue.
We rode our bicycles from Hailey to Sun Valley (and back) on the
great paved bike path. |
View ofGrand Tetons, on our way to Riverton, WY where we spent the
second night. |
We drove over the Bighorn Mountains towards Sheridan, and rode our
bicycles back up the other side, where the road was wider. |
We spent the third and fourth nights at Addie & Loren's in
Sheridan, WY |
Adelaide feeding the horses |
"Junior" and Addie |
Historic Sheridan Inn, leased by Buffalo Bill Cody
|
Sheridan Inn Hotel Desk |
Porch of Sheridan Inn, where Buffalo
Bill hired performers for his Wild West Show |
Loren took us on a hike
in the Bighorns, where his Boy Scouts were camping that
weekend. |
Addie resting, still healing from a
serious auto accident the previous March, and not the strong hiker
she normally is. |
Ken resting his fused ankle |
Dianne, Addie, Loren
same hike--lunch break |
Secluded lake in the Bighorns where we ate lunch |
Old "Splash" Dam in the
Bighorn Mountains |
Devil's Tower, WY, which Ken would
have loved to climb! |
Our own sundeck at a motel in
Spearfish, S.D. where we spent three days and nights eating and
riding our bicycles with the early Sturgis crowd. |
We spent our last evening in
Spearfish (a town we greatly enjoyed) at the
Black Hills Passion Play |
We drove on to my cousin Marsha and
her husband Al's home in Huron, S.D. This photo was taken from
their front yard. |
Al took us out for a great steak
dinner. |
Al and Marsha
at home in Huron |
Al, Marsha, & Ken. . .
Al came home from work to see us off the next day, and Marsha took
me to her favorite shoe store. |
Al & Marsha's house as we said
good-bye and drove on to Minnesota |
Brent and Debby's driveway in the
countryside of Odin, Minnesota. |
Brent and Debby's house |
"Lexi" with Debby.
We also met their second German Shepherd "Gunner", and "Toonces" the
cat |
After Brent took us on a tour of the
area--where both Brent and Debby were born and raised--they fed us
fresh barbequed Pacific Salmon |
Enjoying the salmon and great
company. |
Dianne & Debby, both "veterans" of
Graves' Disease and eye surgeries, and both NGDF facilitators. |
We went on to Eagan, Minneota to see
Bill and Mary Pat, who took us to their cabin at a lake in Wisconsin |
We found out why everything is so
green, as it rained hard the first day at the lake. Bill
introduced us to his famous "Manny", aka Manhattan |
The rain stopped the second day, so
after a super bike ride, we all went out in the kayaks to look at
wildlife. Later we went for a ride in Bill's boat and took a swim in
the lake. |
This was living in the lake, and made
it back to Idaho as a dried flower. |
Mary Pat and Bill with "Molly" |
Loading up to leave.
|
We followed Bill and Mary Pat
back to Minnesota. |
Bill and Mary Pat's house in Eagan.
|
The next morning we picked Jennifer
up from the Minneapolis/St. Paul airport, and drove to the Aberdeen,
S.D. area. This is Glen and Sarah's house from a distance. |
My niece Sarah and her husband Glen's
5-bedroom farmhouse on 8 acres. |
My brother
Alan and most of his family were
waiting when we arrived. |
Alan and Patricia with pregnant
daughters Sarah and Gretchen |
Alan's daughters Gretchen and Trina
with Sarah's twins Rachel and Andie |
Derek and Gretchen with Alan and
Patricia |
Jennifer with two cousins she doesn't
see enough anymore. |
Saying good-bye to Alan and Patricia,
who are weeks away from returning to Siberia, where Alan teaches in
a Lutheran Seminary |
Goodbye to everyone. Sarah gave
birth to a son (Cody) not long afterward. |
Crossing the Missouri River on our
way west through South Dakota |
Later that day we toured the Wind
Caves, S.D. |
We made it through all the Sturgis
bikers on the roads to Mount Rushmore, which was a first for all
three of us. |
We were glad we made it to see this,
even though we were warned it was a tourist area. |
East side of the Bighorn Mountains,
driving back toward Sheridan after spending a night in Gillette, WY |
While driving through the Bighorns,
we took Jennifer hiking off some back roads. |
Jennifer and Ken on our hike |
We found a bull moose very close to
the road. We drove on to Cody, WY and stayed there for the
night. |
The next day after visiting the
Buffalo Bill Museum in Cody, we took Jennifer on her first trip
through Yellowstone |
Giant Geyser, Yellowstone |
Morning Glory Pool |
We were able to see Old Faithful
"doing its thing". |
Still in Yellowstone |
We saw this eagles' nest when leaving
Yellowstone. After eating dinner in West Yellowstone, we ended
up driving all the way home, since no motel rooms were available in
eastern Idaho.. |
