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Day 282: The Last Day!

I forgot to get a photo of my hotel in Red Lodge…a nice old place, but a bit pricy.  The owner told me Beartooth Pass had had snow Thursday night and they thought it was closed for the season.  I am glad it wasn’t!

After determining the GPS was leading me 40 miles out of the way, I turned around and hit eight miles of construction…

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It is always a nice drive down from Red Lodge.

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Sunny skies and clean air!

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Eventually I cross the Yellowstone River.  I crossed it yesterday, too!

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A quick breakfast at McD’s, and a long chat with a Goldwing rider/trucker from back East (He has hotrodded his…) and I am off again down the superslab.

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A right turn at Big timber and it is 60 or so miles to Harlowton.

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The big thing in Harlowton (at least of me) is that it was the end of an electrified division on the Milwaukee (rail)Road.

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This was left in Harlowton in 1974 when they switched to diesel locomotives.  It sits in a nice park now.

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You can read about it be clicking on the photo below.  BACK to return!

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I was then off to White Sulphur Springs.  More of these things were along the way.

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Gas and a right turn at White Sulphur Springs and then it is over King’s Hill to Neihart.

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Past Neihart is the old mine.

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I must be getting near home; this is Belt Creek!

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There it is!

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The door is open for me, too.  Even a welcoming party…of one.

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And the latest Junior Park Ranger!  Until Lugnut got it, at any rate.

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So I made it home safely!  Almost 3,000 miles, and I still haven’t seen Crater Lake…next year…

Now to catch up on my blogging!

~Curtis in /\/\onTana!

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