You Can't Roller Skate In a Buffalo Herd

Just wanted to include a couple of pictures of bison taken about 6 miles north of the JH Visitors Center on the Gros Ventres River road (that's pronounced "grow vant" and is French for big belly. Jackson Hole lies between the Gros Ventre and Teton mountain ranges. I guess the French got to name the mountains in the area.




Listen to "You Can't Roller Skate In a Buffalo Herd".

Good little road trip

Took a little road trip Monday and Tuesday. I wanted to go to Cody to see the Buffalo Bill Historical Center so made a little 500 mile trip out of it by going up through the northeast entrance of Yellowstone. What a beautiful drive. Went up through Cooke City and Red Lodge Montana on the way to Cody, two neat little old western towns now given in to a lot of tourists. Below are a couple of pictures from the Bear Tooth Scenic Byway on the way out of the northeast entrance. They are taken with my new phone which has an 8 megapixel camera, but I decided a real camera is still better for pictures.

Blue Tooth Scenic Byway

Blue Tooth Scenic Byway

The Buffalo Bill Historical Center is a must see. It actually consists of 5 museums: Firearms, Western Art, Plains Indian People, Buffalo Bill and the American West, and The Nature of Yellowstone. You can spend hours in each one of them. The Firearms Museum contains a section on firearms by date and another by manufacturer. I have never seen so many guns of different types.

Buffalo Bill

On the way back thought I was going to be delayed by a 385 acre fire in Yellowstone, but it was more in the middle of the park and no roads were closed. There have already been 4 fires in Yellowstone this year, but that's pretty normal. There have been a few in the Tetons too.

Yellowstone Fire

There was a piece on national news today about a lady who got attacked in a parking lot by a buffalo. I had to drive by one with about 5 foot clearance in a parking lot Monday. If you saw the piece with the lady getting attacked, you'll notice someone threw something at the buffalo and ticked it off.

As most of you already know, they are not really buffalo, but bison. I don't think it would sound right though to sing "give me a home where the bison roam" and Buffalo Bill would not have been near as popular if he had been called Bison Bill.

It's been a while since the latest blog. Had a little trouble with my AC adapter for my PC so had to wait for friends from Holly Lake to bring another one. Had to use the library computers for email and time was limited on them. Not only do I have a new power adapter, but I also have a new phone that allows me to connect my PC to the internet. Really slick.

Activities have been a little curtailed recently. I was crossing a stream last week and a rock slipped out from under me and I hit the dirt. The only injury was to my big toe. It looks like a big purple onion and still hurts, even to wear shoes.

Have had some friends visiting lately. Mike and Miki King, old friends from Lake Highlands Church in Dallas, were up for a few days. We had a nice dinner together. Last week three buds from Holly Lake were here. We got in a little fishing, rafting, sight seeing and gab. Jim, Gerry and Mike's picture is below.

Mike, Jim and Gerry in front of my humble abode

The float trip

Where the buffalo roam

More friends, Couch's and Shewmaker's, are coming later on this month.

That's about it for now.