Spent the day driving from Missoula, Montana to what we hoped would be Cody, Wyoming. Along the way we encountered a Prison Museum in Deere Lodge Montana.
Facts: the Old Montana Prison was built by inmate labor, this turn-of-the-century fortress was home to at least one member of Butch Cassidy's "Wild Bunch".
It was really creepy walking through the hallways and into the cells, but it was interesting all at the same time. The conditions were less than I could imagine living in. We went down to "The Hole" where they put prisoners in solitary confinement and that was little much for me being claustrophobic.
After we left Deere Lodge we traveled to Bozeman, Montana. Just outside of the town there, we almost missed it, was the Grizzly Encounter, as seen on NATGEO TV. We stopped there and saw Brutus the bear and Sheena. What magnificent creatures bears are. Just to be in there watching them was amazing.
The wind was whipping around us and Tom was getting tired so we stopped and fueled up. We spent our first night as Wal-Martians in a Wal-Mart parking lot along side a couple other rigs. It wasn't so bad until the guy who cleans the parking lot did a couple of laps around the motorhome with his sweeper at 3:30 in the morning. We ended up getting up around 4:30 am and heading to Cody.
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