Cathey and I Completing our "Out West Trip"





Cathey and I got back home late yesterday, tired but happy we made a trip of a lifetime for us. We traveled over 4000 miles saw some amazing scenery and didn’t wet a fly on the trip. Time was the factor that kept me out of the streams in the Black Hills and Yellowstone.

As some of you know I am a huge western fan and finding out we could see the actual props used in Dances with Wolves was a plus!!!

The headquarters building of Fort Hayes build for the movie, in fact, all the buildings in the Fort Hayes prop village were all built for the movie. The movie went way over budget but won numerous Oscars at the academy awards in 1989.

 The Black Hills

So majestic is all I can say!!!!

French Creek in the Black Hills, Alan I thought of you when I snapped this image.

Monument located atop Monument Hill at the Little Big Horn Battle Field. We spent the afternoon at this site, because of all the history.

Some of Custer’s Calvary using markers showing where they fell in battle----I want  go into all the information about the battle, but a lot that was seen in all the Custer movies were false.

Custer is not buried here; his remains are buried in West Point Cemetery in New York

Awesome rock mountains at the Buffalo Bill Dam going into Yellowstone

The Shoshone River flowing from the base of the dam

One of the many buffalo we spotted in the park, notice all the burn area in the background. The only negative for Yellowstone was the thousands of acres of burn timber in the park, in fact, there was a fire burning in the park while we there.

Old Faithful

One of many waterfalls in the park; these are a few of the images from the places we visited, there are many more, but I won't bore you with the rest. I will close by saying it was a trip Cathey and I will never forget.