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Beginning our wanderings to Yellowstone and beyond - May 16-18

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We are starting a new adventure. Diane and I decided to go see Yellowstone National Park and the sites around Rapid City, ND including the Badlands, Black Hills, Mount Rushmore and whatever else we could find. We took many pictures and made entries in our journals along the way but decided to hold off on actually writing our blog until we got home. Tuesday, May 16, 2017 Rather than taking several days driving, we decided to fly. We drove to Syracuse, NY on Tuesday, May 16, 2017 and stayed overnight in a hotel close to the airport so we would be ready for our 5:45AM flight to Billings, MT in the morning. Wednesday, May 17, 2017 We got up very early and had breakfast in our room and then headed to the airport. Fortunately when we checked the bags,  they were both only 44 lbs. so we made it under the 50 lb bar. We were lucky, I'm not sure why, but our tickets were marked so we could go through the TSA pre-check and not have to take off our shoes or take the tablet out of the b...
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The Beginning: Toward Yellowstone and Beyond May 17, 18:  Diane’s trip musings May 17 Rain, rain, rain! Raining in Syracuse when we took off; raining in Detroit when we changed planes; pouring buckets in Billings, MT, when we arrived to claim very soggy luggage. Tom felt that we were lucky to only have two corners on one suitcase soaked through---I wasn’t feeling quite so lucky as I was the one with wet clothing! May 18 On our way to Gardiner, MT for our four days in Yellowstone National Park adventure. Changing lanes, we hit a 2-D skunk and some of it apparently attached to the car---essence of Pepe le Pew. Now finding a car wash was priority # 1, so we did a bit of a detour. Turned off on an exit for Greycliff—no car-wash, actually, no town. However, we had passed a sign for “Prairie Dog Village” on the way into “town” and thought, why not? Back tracking a couple of miles, we entered the prairie dog domain. We were able to drive right through the middle of the rodents...
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