Pompeys Pillar National Monument - Montana

Our day trip today was an 75-mile trip over to Pompey's Pillar National Monument. This is the location where Captain William Clark (of Lewis & Clark), engraved his name and date into the rock cliff. Clark made note of the engraving in his journals. While we were there, we completed two of the three geocaches in the park. The third cache would have required us to bushwhack through about a 100 feet of 3 foot high grass (with ticks and mosquitoes)...NOT!!!

On the way back we stopped in Billings for lunch at Cracker Barrel. As we left the restaurant and entered onto Interstate 90, a truck threw up a rock and cracked our windshield. *&%$^!@# We looked in the GPS for a glass repair shop that was close by. There was a Safelite AutoGlass shop within a couple of miles. The shop manager was very accommodating and had us fixed and on the road in about an hour. Oh, the cost...free, insurance covered it!

View of Yellowstone River from the top of the monument.

Local flora (unknown species?)