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Today is October 4, 2010 and once again my Little Blue Iron Pony had to take a rest. We have been in the wilderness city of Ranchester, Wyo. At the Lazy R Campground since Sat. nite. The Pony ran out of electrical power Sat. afternoon as we were zipping along between Sturgis, Wyo. And The Devil’s Tower. We had time to gaze at the awesome Tower and spend some time there but had to beat feet on to Gillette, Wyo. Where we found a chevy dealer but of course on a sat. nite in cowboy country there are no services available so they sent us on to an auto store. The young cowgirl working there did the check on the Pony and suggested a bad battery. I believe she would be better at guessing the illness of a real four-legged than what she suggested for our Pony!!!!! Anyhoooooo, we beat feet on to Sheridan, Wyo. And we were limping along on about one leg when the Pony burped and let me know that the end of the trail was coming up fast so we dove off the interstate 90 into Ranchester and found this campsite and here we parked the metal tee-pee. The folks running the camp are our age and are very nice. I have to add that at one point along the trail from Gillette to Sheridan the battery ran out of juice and we had to park along the interstate and I dug out the generator and had to charge it up so that we could get on down the road. On Sunday in Sheridan there were only two auto stores open and of course neither had what was needed to get Little Pony up and running on His own. It was concluded that the Pony had a bad electrical generating plant and had to be ordered in from Billings, Mt. Two-three day wait unless of course I paid the extra wampum and it would be in Mon. afternoon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Yea, Sure, We’lllllll, Seeee!!!
Backing up some, after leaving Dubois, Wyo. We plugged along across Wyo. And set up camp in Custer, S.D. On Fri. Sept. 17. Sat. we tripped around Crazy Horse Monument. A truly awesome site and an inspiring place. We walked around the Mt. Rushmore site and were amazed again at the rock sculptures. The day was rain and fog and so the site at Crazy Horse was limited and we could not see the site but as we were leaving on Sun. morning it was a beautiful and clear day, stopped again at Crazy Horse and took the ride to the bottom of the site. After seeing the sites, little Pony trotted along to get us on toward our destination. We ran at breakneck speed across S. D., then Minn. And Wisconsin. The Upper Mich. dumped gallons and gallons of H2O on us and the wind pushed against Little Pony but after three days we checked in at Freda Chippewa’s place in Peshawbestown, Mich. our final destination for this adventure. A little over 8,000 mi since we left Lakeport, Ca. July 27th. For more adventure update, check out the next blog. UUUUUgggggmmmmmsssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111