On Sunday, we left Montana and headed to Wyoming and Devils Tower. (Funny little factoid: This was the first national monument and sometime early in the last century, a clerk left the apostrophe out of Devil's and it was never put back in.) Devils Tower is one of those natural features that we see so often in photos that we tend to think 'yeah, yeah, yeah' but it really is a 'wow!' in person. We stayed at a KOA campground right at the base, and yesterday morning drove up to the visitor's center. After looking around there, we took the 1.3 mile hike around it. The weather was perfect and fall color beginning to show. We did not make any mashed potato models.
We then packed up and headed back east. Our plan was to spend several days in the Black Hills at one of the campgrounds in Custer State Park. We did not have reservations, thinking it wouldn't be a problem during the week at this time of year, but a call to the park informed us that all of the campgrounds were full. So now we are at Angostura State Recreation Area just south of the Black Hills. We are still in the Mountain Time Zone--we think, although that is frequently up for debate. Good thing we don't have to be anywhere on time.
It's a pretty campground and we deliberately chose sites close to the shower house because there's no water hookups and we will be here for several days. However, after we set up, we discovered that the nearby shower house is closed for the winter; the one that's open is at the other end of the campground. Also, there is a fire ban--something we've been seeing since Theodore Roosevelt in North Dakota so no campfires here. But we are all looking forward to a little downtime and maybe even a little laundry.
It's a pretty campground and we deliberately chose sites close to the shower house because there's no water hookups and we will be here for several days. However, after we set up, we discovered that the nearby shower house is closed for the winter; the one that's open is at the other end of the campground. Also, there is a fire ban--something we've been seeing since Theodore Roosevelt in North Dakota so no campfires here. But we are all looking forward to a little downtime and maybe even a little laundry.
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