Yellowstone With Tami and Nick

Tami and Nick (daughter and grandson) flew into Bozeman, MT July 28 to travel with me for a week around Yellowstone.  We covered parts of Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, and Washington, then headed back to their home in Oregon.  We spent the first night in Bozeman at Bear Canyon RV Park adjusting to the little space in my small RV and found it wasn't bad at all.

 

Before heading to Yellowstone, we decided to take in a couple of museums in Bozeman, MT. 

 

The Museum of the Rockies, originally affiliated with Montana State University in Bozeman, and now, also, the Smithsonian Institution, the museum is known for its paleontological collections.  It houses the largest collection of dinosaur remains in the United States, possessing the largest Tyrannosaurus skull ever discovered.

The museum's collections focus on the physical and cultural history of the Rocky Mountains and the people and animals who have lived there, and date back more than 500 million years,  American Indians on the Northern Plains and near the Rocky Mountains.

 

 

It was interesting to see these workers cleaning real specimens of bones found in the area.

 

 

Taylor Planetarium, is a  domed theater which showed a production featuring black holes in the Universe.

 

 Living History Farm, was one of the attractions, which includes the Tinsley House, where costumed interpreters demonstrate life in a turn-of-the-century home.  It was like going back in time as you could actually interact with what they were doing.

This was a sewing and weaving room.

The kitchen where they were actually cooking on an old stove.

We left here and headed to the American Computer Museum which is a museum of the history of computing, communications, artificial intelligence and robotics.  It was interesting to see how far we have come with technology.

 

 That same day, we drove on to West Yellowstone, MT and were lucky to find a place to stay at Buffalo Crossing RV Park since we had no reservations and there were SO many tourists there.  We explored the downtown area.  Lots of motorcycles everywhere we went because of the Sturgis Rally that was going on in Sturgis, SD. 

 

 

Downtown West Yellowstone, MT