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Welcome home guys !
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I agree!!!!! and it looks like you really lucked out in the Weather dept too...absolutly beautiful and a trip of a lifetime! |
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You may not know this but there is a nesting pair of bald eagles in Elgin. There's a great view from the Gail Borden Library overlooking the Fox River. Jim, Awesome photos! Any chance you'll make a complete album of all the pics? , |
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You guys passed us East of Billings about 3 hrs ago. Have a safe trip home.Tyler
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Where are you now? I am in Sheridan, WY and tomorrow we are going to Rapid City, SD to see Mount Rushmore. Jim |
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Ok, now that we are doing the travel log in real time I will have to get caught up to Saturday. So here goes.
On Friday, we spent the day in southern Alberta visiting some off the beaten path sites. First we went to Milk River, AB and drove 30 Km east to an area called Writing on Rocks. The site is a sacred, Black Foot Indian site where there are petroglyphs and pictographs on the stone walls of the banks of the ancient path of the Milk River: http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/p...e/DSC_0152.jpg The limestone cliffs contain the paintings and scratched designs of hundred of years of visitors. Many are modern grafittti, but experts have determined that some are ancient. This drawing is thought to be an elk: http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/p...e/DSC_0057.jpg This drawing is thought to represent a warrior or hunter with a spear: http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/p...DSC_0066-1.jpg These circular designs are believed to represent warriors armed with shields. The large size of the shields indicates that the drawings are from before the use of horses: http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/p...e/DSC_0166.jpg As we were leaving the area of the carvings, we spotted a River Elk watching us from a crevice in the stone: http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/p...DSC_0199-1.jpg |
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After our visit to Wirting on Stone, we decided to visit the site of a dinosaur fossil discovery. In Warner, Alberta, in the 1980's, a young paleontologist discovered fossilized dinosaur egg shells in a ravine called Devil's Collie. Exploration of the site have determined it to be one of the largest dinosaur nesting sites in North America. A local museum was established and guided visits to the site are available. We followed our guide out in to the farm country to the site:
http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/p...DSC_0452-1.jpg Devil's Collie is a very normal looking ravine: http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/p...e/DSC_0342.jpg But closer examination reveals an amazing amount of fosillized dinosaur remains. The black specks seen on the ground are all pieces of dinosaur egg shell: http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/p...DSC_0346-1.jpg The guide pointed out a dinosaur hip bone partially exposed, and Lyndi is holding fossilized dinosaur poop: http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/p...e/DSC_0383.jpg Here, Lyndi is holding a fossilized juvenile dinosaur claw: http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/p...DSC_0392-1.jpg After our explorations, we crossed the border into the US and drove to Conrad, Montana: http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/p...e/DSC_0615.jpg Jim |
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On Saturday, we drove south on I-15, and then east on I-90. The scenery was fantastic, the weather was perfect, and the ZR-1 is running great. It was a great day for cruising.
Northern Montana is very flat: http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/p...DSC_0003-1.jpg As we headed south, the landscape became more varied: http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/p...DSC_0041-2.jpg We stopped in Great Falls, MT and saw the first two C-4 Corvettes since we left Maryland. They were in a for sale lot: http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/p...DSC_0029-1.jpg I-90 runs along side the railroad tracks for many miles. We saw 10 or 11 trains, mostly coal and containers. But there was one mixed freight train with three of these plane fuselages as cargo: http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/p...e/DSC_0202.jpg We crossed into Wyoming: http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/p...e/DSC_0824.jpg We stopped in Sheridan where we are staying at the Mill Inn which is an old mill converted to a hotel. http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/p...DSC_0855-1.jpg Jim |
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Sheridan also going to bbfast 863 660 6132. To Denver next.\Tyler
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