Butte to West Yellowstone
Today our aim is to travel through Montana down to West Yellowstone so we can see the National Park over the weekend. There are a couple of old cowboy towns that mean something to Andy from old westerns and he wants to check them out on the way.
What we really can't get over is the wide open spaces of Montana in between huge ranges of mountains. In the pic on the left you can even see the slope of the plains starting up on the mountain - hey even I remember seeing that in old cowboy movies. The scenery here really is spectacular and once again the camera just doesn't do it justice.
Our first old town was Nevada City which has been reconstructed with actual building from nearby towns and of a similar period to the old Nevada City. There really was a little township here with several roads and houses even if some of the roads were all grass.
Next stop a whole mile up the road was Virginia City, and now I think I have done enough cowboy towns for a while.
We carry on to West Yellowstone and stay at the Yellowstone Grizzly RV Park - mainly because I like the sound of the name. Turns out the boys are delighted anyway because in the games room they have an X-box!! The first time they have seen one since we left home. We didn't see a lot them while we were here!
