Can't believe it is just one week since we started on this road-trip. Did so many things and saw so many places in the past week, it almost feels like we have been on the road for a month at least!
Left Yellowstone NP in the morning, after stopping at a book shop for printing out some documents while JH picked up the copy of the new Harry Potter book. Drive through Yellowstone from the North entrance to North-east entrance.
The couple I met yesterday evening at the Boiling river - who were from the nearby Bozeman - had recommended highly the Beartooth Scenic Byway in Montana, and the guidebooks endorsed the recommendations. So decided to go through this route towards our next destination.
The scenic byway was indeed very scenic providing excellent views consisting of mountains with patches of snow, lakes and huge valleys. The road ascends the Beartooth mountains providing awesome spectacles all along the way. It was definitely worth the additional driving we had to do today!
The next destination was the Little Bighorn Battlefield Monument, after a brief stop in Billings, Montana which turned out to be a really very small town. Little Bighorn is of historical importance; a battlefield where Sioux Indians scored a victory over the US army in 1876. While it was a big shock that the army could lose so badly and that Gen Custer lost his life as well as all his mens' in the battle, the victory itself proved to be the Last Stand for Indians as well as they lost their freedom immediately afterwards.
The monument was originally named as Custer Battlefield and informally famous as Custer's Last Stand. Recently the name has been changed to Little Bighorn Battlefield Monument, and a Indian Memorial has been included as part of the monument to recognize the fact that the Indians were not the villains in this story.
Stopping at a place called Sheridan in Wyoming, with the intention of visiting Cody and Thermopolis tomorrow.
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