Bill and Tara, Day 4, Billings, MT to Rapid City, SD

After departing Billings, Montana this morning we began to head southeast...still on I-90.

Although we are not travelling in our motorhome on this trip we can't help but keeping an eye on our fellow RVers:)

Southeastern Montana...long vistas, big sky.

Still in Montana we took an hour or two to visit the Little Bighorn National Battlefield Memorial. On June 25, 1876 General George Custer attacked a very large Sioux village on the banks of the Little Bighorn River. To make a very long story short Custer's Seventh Cavalry was defeated by a superior Indian counterattack. This photo shows markers where some of Custer's men fell on Last Stand Hill. It also shows the Little Bighorn National Cemetery and the Park museum and visitors' center.

The blackfaced stone shows where Custer's body was found on Last Stand Hill.

The tree line running across the upper portion of this picture marks the Little Bighorn River. The Sioux village was on the far (west) side.

In the early 1990s, the Native American decendents of the Indians who fought Custer's Seventh Cavalry erected a beautiful memorial honoring the tribes that participated in the battle and the Indian warriors who were killed. The iron artwork here is just a part of the overall memorial.

After departing the Little Bighorn we drove another 30-40 miles and entered Wyoming.

Wyoming countryside.

There were cattle on a thousand hills...or so it seemed:)

By late afternoon we drove out of Wyoming and into South Dakota.

One of the first towns we came to in South Dakota was Sturgis...the site of the biggest annual motorcycle gathering in the USA.

We finished the day visiting a very close family friend in Rapid City.
Tara, Rosie holding Mandy and me:)