June 22, Wednesday, Glendive to Makoshika, State Park MT

One additional note about the town Terry from yesterday: the Kempton Hotel in town is the oldest continuously operating hotel in Montana. And when we crossed the Yellowstone, we measured on the bike odometer from the middle of the bridge to the end, 0.11 miles, so the river was about two-tenths of a mile across. 
   Our warm showers host was a former librarian and newspaper story writer who was also overseas for several years in Uganda and Mozambique. We were pretty tired last night and slept in this morning.   Decided to go see the nearby state park which contains badlands. The area used to be an old sea some 50 to 70 million years ago, then after that dinosaurs were in the area, with fossils being found here in a certain exposed layer. There are multiple strata of many different colors--very beautiful to look at. Over half of today's movement was hiking so did  7 miles on a bike and 7 miles hiking through the the park.  Tonight we are camping in the park at about 2500 ft in a very rustic campsite. At our site there's a pit toilet and 2 picnic tables, no water, no lights and we sit above most everything here and have a very impressive view out over the badlands into the Yellowstone valley. The nearest campsite is a half mile to mile away; the access road to the campsite is a third of a mile off the park road. We also get to hear the wind sighing through some ponderosa pines at our site.

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  1. Bill and PennyJune 23, 2022 at 11:20 AM

    You paint a beautiful sight and sound portrait of your days journey! So impressed by all you are seeing that would certainly get missed if you were rushing through in a car.

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