Yup, Found the Missing Camera

I was into a box under the bed and I found my lost camera with June Hulett parade and rodeo.  Here's the pictures I was missing.


The float from the Tower where we volunteer

Wyoming tradition

The only band in the parade - The Hulette Jr-Sr High School Band

After the parade came the rodeo

The girls barrel racing was amazing!

Saturday Wyoming Road Work

Construction back roads here are REAL construction sites.  You have to wait for
a pilot car and they guide you right through the site with workers all around you!

No police vehicles, just people doing their jobs.

 

Just to prove we did go to Montana on a back road.

Arriving back home we had to wait in line to go through the entrance to Devils Tower.

On Saturday I wanted to go on a back road to Alzada, MT, just 20 miles or so from Hulett.  People that work in the bookstore live on that road and complain about construction.  As children they rode the bus to school with children from Alzada, MT.  I thought it unique that kids would go to another state to attend school (Jr and Sr high).  I do not think it would be done in the east! Well, there was construction in at least 3 places and all sites were at work on a Saturday.  In the northeast you would never go right through a construction site while there were trucks, etc. working.  Liability would prevent it happening.  Out west they know how to move traffic, might be a bit slower waiting for the pilot car, but it moves.  You do not slow down to a crawl at construction because people do not drive in a closing lane until they cannot go any further and then try to squeeze in traffic that obeyed the sign!  All seem to know how to move into the correct lane well ahead of time and the traffic is hardly slowed.  Kudo's to out west drivers!  They seem to be courtious and just obey without police intervention. As an easterner I appreciate you.  And with living so far out one can get a license to drive at age 14......Wow!.... I talked to the flagger while we were waiting for the pilot car.

Time to Think TRAVEL

We washed and waxed part of our rig and we have been taking care of maintenance issues of both the car and rig.  With 4 rounds of volunteering left and visitors coming I have the whip out and John is taking my lists of "to do" things in stride.

Spearfish Fish Hatchery next

We do not have much time left at Devils Tower so we showed Pam where we will be going next.  There was a parade on the 4th of July when we were at the Fish Hatchery.  I lost pictures of Hulette Parade but took a few in Spearfish.  John will be volunteering in the rail car and museum.  I will be working in the store and giving a tour of the historic superintendent's house .

The rail car that John will be a docent (interpreter) in.

Bronze statues in the hatchery.

Ponds & races that trout are raised in.

There were model T's in the parade

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Belle Fouche Rodeo

I have pictures of the Belle Fouche Rodeo.  I lost my camera at the Hulett Rodeo arena! 

Bucking bronc cowboys were taken off if they stayed on long enough to be taken off!

 

They could even rope and down a steer like lightning!

We finally relaxed and talked to our Texas friends.  We had met them once in
Yellowstone and once in a Walmart parking lot.

Wind Cave and Spearfish Canyon

At Wind Cave NP we saw a few small herds of Pronghorn.
Then one was several feet from us in a parking lot and he just stayed!

 

Then we were in the middle of a larger herd of bison on both sides of the road.  Mom's were nursing calfs and dads were grunting and passing back and forth.  We left when one large bull started to stamp and snort!

Bridal Falls in Spearfish Canyon was beautiful


We had Scion radiator trouble on our Black Hills trip but everything worked out.  We needed water the second day but we had bottles of water.  On  July 4th John stopped at a Family Dollar hoping they were open & they would carry antifreeze. They did.  Then we passed an opened mechanic shop and pulled in.  He was working on the 4th because he had things to get done.  He immediately found the problem (a fuse) and replaced it.  Charged us $5 and we gave him $10 and we were on our way again.  Pam saw how nice people are when we have trouble on the road!

Wirlwind tour of the Black Hills with Pam

Pam, our daughter, was picked up at the Rapid City Airport, 1 1/2 hours away from Devils Tower but her luggage missed a connection.  We had planned to tour Mount Rushmore, Custer State Park, Wind Cave NP and Spearfish Canyon anyway so we picked her luggage up the next day and just went on touring the Black Hills of South Dakata.  She spent a wirlwind 5 days with us and back she went from Rapid City, SD flying east.  We went to a rodeo in Belle Fouche, SD on Sunday meeting our Texas volunteer friends for lunch and the rodeo.  My camera this time takes good pictures but the timer is seconds from pushing the button so I missed many a shot of cowboys and sometimes I just got dirt.  The cowboy went one way and the horse or cow another and I got the center between the two!!!!!!!!!!  We did eat at Cindy B's, my favorite restaurant after visitin the coal tipple near the town.  The wirlwind visit came to an end quickly!  We will have another set of visitors, daughter Lisa and her hubby, just before we leave Devils Tower.  They plan to do the Black Hills first, and then on our days off we will all go to Yellowstone National Park in the motorhome.  They leave, we finish our schedules for one more week and we are off to South Dakota to volunteer 6 weeks at DC Booth Historic Fish Hatchery! Time is flying!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The old coal tipple we visited near Aladdin.  Coal was and is mined in the area.