Sunday August 5
Today would be a long travel day. We ate breakfast with our friends at a quaint log cabin restaurant in Columbia Falls. We had planned to eat at the Blue Moon casino, but it turned out that the casino, or at least the casino restaurant, opened late on Sunday mornings. Montana is loaded with small casinos. There is one on about every other corner. No crazy rules here about letting the Native Americans get all the tourist's $$$. After breakfast we made our goodbyes, broke camp and hit the road about 10:00. As we drove south and east towards Missoula, the smoke and haze from the fires got even worse. We saw some evidence of recent burn along I-90 east of Missoula. As we continued eastward, the skies began to clear, and we actually saw some mountain vistas fairly clearly. We had hoped to visit the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, but it was after dark when we passed there so we kept going. We drove until about 11:00 PM and camped at the Wal-Mart in Sheridan, WY, where we did spend $27 on groceries. We made almost 600 miles today.
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