Day-late - Other Trail Journal - 2019

Clusters Last Stand

Woke up in the middle of the night with a bad head cold. Sore throat and sinuses completel stuffed up causing a headache. Nothing worse than being sick on a trip. Picked up some decngestant in the morning and tht helps a little but I feel yuck.We drove to Little Big Horn and they immediately made me feel like Custer when I entered cause they reall scapled me on the enterence fee. I was expecting something in the $ 10 range but it was $ 25. They reall shouldn't charge at all seeing as it is a veterans cemetary too. Oh well.It was interesting and I'm glad i went but I won't be going back until I gat a senior pass as i would not pay $ 25 again. As I was walking the grounds I thought of some really invoating things they coud do do make the expereince there really come alive using an augmented reality headset. Maybe some day in the future you coud see segments of the battle play out. It was definately a lobsided affair as it was 2000 vs 250 with 259 killed on the army side and about 60 Indians killed. There were 8000 indians encamped there with about 2000 warriors.After walking through the battle grounds we headed out toward South Dakota an ended up doing about a 1/2 hour in Woming to get here. We found a campsite in the mid afternoon on the shores of a resiviour just outside of Belle fourcette. It is nice and very spread out so the dog can roam free without bothering others. I basically just kind of sat around and vegitated as thiis cold was reall getting to me by late in the day.We are on our way to the Bad Lands of South Dakota tomorrow.

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