Billings trip in 1987

This blog page included many points of interest on our way to Billings, MT to attend the 1987 Annual Meeting of the SWCS. (Soil and Water Conservation Society). It is a continuation of yesterday's blog sheet where I wrote about towing our VW behind our Motor Home. Elaine and I left early on the 25th of July and headed out west. We spent the first night at a City Park Campground in Guernsey, WY. After supper we drove the VW over to Register Rock. The names dating back to 1850 were still in good shape. We also went to the Guernsey Reservoir and State Park and then to the Oregon Trail Ruts which were up to 5 foot deep in sandstone. We got to a KOA Campground ahead of Moran Junction  and drove the VW down to the Grand Teton National Park, the Jackson Lake Lodge and Coulter Bay Visitors Center. After another night in the KOA campground we shopped in Jackson but things were very expensive. At Teton Village we rode a tram up Rendezvous Mountain going from 6,311 to 10,450 elevation. It was 40 degrees when we got up on the 28th so we started the furnace. We got away early and into Madison Junction in Yellowstone NP. We drove down to Fire Hole falls, Fountain Paint Pots, the Geyser Basin and Old Faithful. We went out of the park to West Yellowstone and north to Ennis where we visited Paul and Joan Huff. On Saturday August 1st we drove the VW up to Red Lodge for their "Festival of Nations" celebration. We bought a piece of petrified wood in an Antique shop for Carolyn. Then drove up to Bear Tooth Pass. We got to the Sheraton Hotel in Billings on August 2 for the SCSA meeting. That will be a story in it's own right at a future date.We did get home in time to wish Mother a Happy 87th Birthday on August 7th. We had driven the Motor Home 1,991 miles and the VW 864.