Tuesday (6/16)   We started the day in Sheridan, WY.  We spent the night in a Wal-Mart parking lot which looked like a camp ground.  There were 14 campers in the parking lot.

We went to the Bradford Brinton Museum and Memorial which is located in small country community of Big Horn, just outside of Sheridan, in the ranch home Mr. Brinton purchased in 1923.  This ranch home sits in the middle of a wild life preserve and is beautifully landscaped.   Mr. Brinton was an eclectic collector of art and Indian artifacts.  His collection included an Abraham Lincoln letter, a document signed by George Washington, art works of painters such as Frederick Remington, Charles Russell, Picasso, Edward Hopper, George Bellows and many more.  It was definitely worth the drive to see it.

From there we headed east to Devils Tower National Monument.  This was the first national monument in the U.S. It is actually the core of a volcano exposed after millions of years of erosion by water and the weather.   The tower is a rock structure that is 865 ft high and there is a path around the base of it that is 1.3 miles long.   We walked around the base of it which took about 45 minutes.  The tower looks like it has columns all around it.

We had dinner in Sturgis, SD, which is the site of a major motorcycle rally each year.   After we finished our dinner, a couple said to us, "Are you the people with that cute trailer?"  It turns out, that they drove by the restaurant and saw our T@B.   Turned around and ate dinner there just so they could talk to us.   We gave them a tour and some information.   As we left them, the woman said, "I am going to buy one just as soon as I can find one."  It was kind of fun!