ZR-1 Alaskan Adventure Travel Log

[scottfab]

Welcome home guys !

[Alberta_ZR1]

Originally Posted by Daniel_Mc

Jim,

Great pictures, I just realized I am living in the wrong place...

Daniel

I am fortunate to live here and after seeing these photos it reminds me that I need to get the hell out there and take in that awe inspiring scenery. I think a road trip might be in order tomorrow morning...

[ZONER 95]

Originally Posted by Dynomite

Did I say this is the Best Photo Travel Log I have ever seen??

Well......it is

Cliff

I agree!!!!! and it looks like you really lucked out in the Weather dept too...absolutly beautiful and a trip of a lifetime!

[XfireZ51]

Originally Posted by -=Jeff=-

I always love seeing the Bald Eagle in the Wild. Lst time I was in Northern Wisconsin I saw at least 6-8

Such a great bird to see

Jeff,

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?
,

[Tyler Townsley]

You guys passed us East of Billings about 3 hrs ago. Have a safe trip home.Tyler

[QB93Z]

Originally Posted by Tyler Townsley

You guys passed us East of Billings about 3 hrs ago. Have a safe trip home.Tyler

OK, you have to love the internet.

Where are you now? I am in Sheridan, WY and tomorrow we are going to Rapid City, SD to see Mount Rushmore.

Jim

[QB93Z]

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:


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:


This drawing is thought to represent a warrior or hunter with a spear:


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:


As we were leaving the area of the carvings, we spotted a River Elk watching us from a crevice in the stone:

[QB93Z]

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:


Devil's Collie is a very normal looking ravine:


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:


The guide pointed out a dinosaur hip bone partially exposed, and Lyndi is holding fossilized dinosaur poop:


Here, Lyndi is holding a fossilized juvenile dinosaur claw:


After our explorations, we crossed the border into the US and drove to Conrad, Montana:


Jim

[QB93Z]

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:


As we headed south, the landscape became more varied:


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:


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:


We crossed into Wyoming:


We stopped in Sheridan where we are staying at the Mill Inn which is an old mill converted to a hotel.


Jim

[Tyler Townsley]

Sheridan also going to bbfast 863 660 6132. To Denver next.\Tyler