{"id":25870,"date":"2015-10-31T15:48:08","date_gmt":"2015-10-31T22:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/?p=25870"},"modified":"2015-10-31T15:51:33","modified_gmt":"2015-10-31T22:51:33","slug":"day-282-the-last-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/?p=25870","title":{"rendered":"Day 282: The Last Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I forgot to get a photo of my hotel in Red Lodge&#8230;a nice old place, but a bit pricy. \u00c2\u00a0The owner told me Beartooth Pass had had snow Thursday night and they thought it was closed for the season. \u00c2\u00a0I am glad it wasn&#8217;t!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">After determining the GPS was leading me 40 miles out of the way, I turned around and hit eight miles of construction&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528101.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-25871\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528101-600x259.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"600\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528101-600x259.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528101-300x130.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528101.jpg 1851w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It is always a nice drive down from Red Lodge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528102.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-25872\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528102-600x228.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"600\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528102-600x228.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528102-300x114.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Sunny skies and clean air!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528103.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-25873\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528103-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528103-600x400.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528103-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528103.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528104.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-25874\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528104-600x271.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"600\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528104-600x271.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528104-300x136.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528104.jpg 1768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Eventually I cross the Yellowstone River. \u00c2\u00a0I crossed it yesterday, too!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528105.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-25875\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528105-600x323.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"600\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528105-600x323.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528105-300x161.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528105.jpg 1488w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A quick breakfast at McD&#8217;s, and a long chat with a Goldwing rider\/trucker from back East (He has hotrodded his&#8230;) and I am off again down the superslab.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528106.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-25876\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528106-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528106-600x400.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528106-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528106.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A right turn at Big timber and it is 60 or so miles to Harlowton.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528107.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-25877\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528107-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528107-600x400.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528107-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528107.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The big thing in Harlowton (at least of me) is that it was the end of an electrified division on the Milwaukee (rail)Road.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528108.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-25878\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528108-600x245.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"600\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528108-600x245.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528108-300x122.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528108.jpg 1960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This was left in Harlowton in 1974 when they switched to diesel locomotives. \u00c2\u00a0It sits in a nice park now.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528109.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-25879\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528109-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528109-600x400.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528109-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528109.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">You can read about it be clicking on the photo below. \u00c2\u00a0BACK to return!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528110.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-25880\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528110-600x342.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"600\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528110-600x342.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528110-300x171.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I was then off to White Sulphur Springs. \u00c2\u00a0More of these things were along the way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528111.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-25881\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528111-600x193.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"600\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528111-600x193.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528111-300x96.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Gas and a right turn at White Sulphur Springs and then it is over King&#8217;s Hill to Neihart.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528112.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-25882\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528112-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528112-600x400.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528112-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528112.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Past Neihart is the old mine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528113.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-25883\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528113-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528113-600x400.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528113-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528113.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I must be getting near home; this is Belt Creek!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528114.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-25884\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528114-401x600.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"401\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528114-401x600.jpg 401w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528114-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528114.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 401px) 100vw, 401px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">There it is!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528115.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-25885\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528115-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528115-600x400.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528115-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528115.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The door is open for me, too. \u00c2\u00a0Even a welcoming party&#8230;of one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528116.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-25886\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528116-382x600.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"382\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528116-382x600.jpg 382w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528116-191x300.jpg 191w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528116.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 382px) 100vw, 382px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And the latest Junior Park Ranger! \u00c2\u00a0Until Lugnut got it, at any rate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528117.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-25887\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528117-600x388.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"600\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528117-600x388.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528117-300x194.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Day1528117.jpg 1484w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So I made it home safely! \u00c2\u00a0Almost 3,000 miles, and I still haven&#8217;t seen Crater Lake&#8230;next year&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Now to catch up on my blogging!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">~Curtis in \/\\\/\\onTana!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I forgot to get a photo of my hotel in Red Lodge&#8230;a nice old place, but a bit pricy. \u00c2\u00a0The owner told me Beartooth Pass had had snow Thursday night and they thought it was closed for the season. \u00c2\u00a0I am glad it wasn&#8217;t! After determining the GPS was leading me 40 miles out of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,14,33,6,5,45,8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crater-lake-2015","category-family","category-landscapes","category-motorcycles","category-on-the-road","category-pad-2015","category-photography","category-railroads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25870"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25891,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25870\/revisions\/25891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}