First week on Alaska trip 2017

Since we left CORA, we traveled to Glendo WY.  We stayed the night in Glendo Lakeside RV Park. The park was nice with very large roads to get to your site.

The next morning we made our way to Buffalo WY and stayed in Indian Campground.  We needed to do some shopping for our week that we were going to stay up at Joe's family cabin at Dull Knife Reservoir.  It was great seeing Joe's family and catching up with them.  The cabin is a summer only get away.  We were definitely off the grid.  There was no cell service, internet or electricity.  We had water that was pumped from a well and a hot water heater, propane for cooking on stove and lights. and a generator to run the occasional power tool. Oh yeah, it has an outhouse, if any of you remember what those are. The one thing it had in abundance was food. No one starved and we had a huge selection of food, beverages, wine and beer.  In this day of age, we actually sat down at meals and carried on conversations with each other.  Joe, his brother Mike, and brother in law Mel went fishing in Dull Knife Reservoir almost everyday.  A lot of catch and release was had by all.

Dull  Knife Reservoir from front porch

After that week we returned to Indian Campground and did the mundane chores of laundry, food shopping, cleaning and checking to make sure everything was ready for our trip.  We went to dinner with Katrina and Harold Anton, owners of Indian Campground and caught up on both our winters.  They restored a vintage Shasta trailer and took it to Las Vegas. Katrina said they had a good time except for extremely close quarters. I do believe it's great for weekends but probably not extended travel. Maybe one day we might think about restoring one.

On our way to Big Timber, we stopped at the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument.We really wanted to check it out and spend a little time there.  The problem: NO PETS ALLOWED OUTSIDE OF VEHICLE. Fortunately the temperature outside was in the 60's so Kyoto and Osaka would be okay for a little bit.  We hurried thru the Monument and really didn't read anything or look at any of the dioramas.  Just wished we had more time, there is a lot of history here, but we couldn't leave the dogs for long.

Our next stop is in Big Timber. We will spend the night then on to Great Falls where we spend the next 3 nights and will meet everyone on the tour