Reunion Tour - 18

Left Cody WY and drove through the Bighorn Mountains in the heat - was 103 degrees as we drove into South Dakota. Watched smoke from wildfires for many miles, not knowing that they were in the area we were heading for. We didn't know if we could get to Devil's Tower because of the fires but with one diversion we made it, after seeing firefighters along the road. Devil's Tower (you saw it in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind) was awesome but it was too hot for us to walk the trail around it. We arrived there at the same time as a tour bus that we had been following most of the morning. It was out of Chicago and it was carrying a group from Poland. They were making a quick tour of all the highlights of the Great American West, with many miles and not a lot of time. From there we drove into Spearfish SD to spend the night. We had great difficulty because of a Corvette convention in town used up most of the motel space.