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.