Monday, July 30, 2018

Summer 2018 #1


Iowa and Nebraska
Council Bluffs, IA was our first major stop.
  This center has all you want to know about the


Entering the Museum/Visitors Center
https://iowaculture.gov/history/sites/western-historic-trails-center


is in Omaha, NE.
It sits at the base of a pedestrian bridge
 across the Missouri River to Council Bluffs.
Our reflections are in the building as we walk the bridge.

Here we go!

On the Iowa side, heading back.

Also near the pedestrian bridge.

Downtown Omaha.
Helping out one of the emigrants.  
Omaha was the first capital of Nebraska.



Downtown Council Bluffs has the Union Pacific RR museum.  
Lincoln decided that Council Bluffs would be the
 eastern terminus of the transcontinental RR.

There is even a "golden spike" city park.

And a monument to Lincoln on a bluff
 overlooking the Missouri River.

Lewis and Clark's first "council" with native 
Americans is honored on this bluff.


An evening stroll through downtown Council Bluffs.

The historic city center.


Back to Omaha to visit Gerald Ford's birthplace.







 on our way to the Yankton, SD area.



South Dakota



The Thirteen clans monument in the Winnebago Reservation.

Corps of Engineers Visitor Center near Yankton, SD but in Nebraska.
We spent two nights in a Nebraska Recreation Area while touring the area.

In Yankton, the Missouri National Recreation River headquarters.


Yankton was the Territorial Capital of the Dakotas.
Behind Judy is the re-constructed capitol,
 and beside her is a river-boat capitan.


The Meridian Bridge (double deck) was converted
 to a pedestrian bridge in 2011.

In the Meridian Bridge park on the SD side of the Missouri.

In the center, with the locks of love.


The traditional pose with the National Park sign
 at the entrance to the Discovery Bridge
 with the Meridian Bridge in the background.

Westbound on Nebraska state road.
"Wide Load" was an understatement.

In Valentine, Nebraska. 
 This makes our 374th National Park visited!

Fort Falls in the Niobrara National Scenic River.

Berry Falls.

Smith Falls in a state park on the Niobrara National Scenic River

In the pool below Smith Falls.  Cold, spring fed water.


Visiting the re-constructed sod house,
 and a few mosquitoes in the grassland.



Wyoming




We first visited here in 1999.
Thanks Warren and Mary!

On the 1.3 hike walk around the tower.

Usual pose.

Ice cream for Judy and a beer for me.
  We're on the deck of the trading post below the tower.



First visit here also in 1999.





The Native American Memorial at Little Big Horn.



Montana

In Great Falls, MT.
 Originally, Lewis and Clark thought 
they could portage the falls in two days.
  A month later they were back on the Missouri heading west. 
 The Interpretive Center was great.


Judy's pose at the Giant Spring,
 just a short walk from the Interpretive Center
 and the rainbow trout hatchery.

Dennis enjoying the view and coolness
 coming off the 54 degree water.

Big Falls.  The first of the Great Falls of the Missouri
 seen by the Corps of Discovery.


Idaho hot spring are next on the agenda!

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