We checked out of the Western Inn and went through town, where Geo found Stella's Bakery where we had a very good breakfast. I'll have to remember about this place next week when I'm in Billings for the BMW rally.
We rode east on I-94 to Pompey's Pillar, a natural rock outcropping on the Yellowstone River, that was used as a meeting place and hunting ground by the Indians for centuries before William Clark named it after Sacagewas' son, who was called Pomp. Clark actually carved his name in the stone about halfway up the pillar, and it can still be seen today, protected by glass.
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| Pompey's Pillar |
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| View from the top of farmland to the west |
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| Yellowstone river and undeveloped land to the east |
The temperature in Billings was 55 degrees when I got up, and it was about 80 at Pompey's Pillar. By the early afternoon it was over 90. There is some farmland along I-94, but a lot of it is range land and badlands.
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| Montana badlands from I-94 |
We are spending the night at the Oasis Motel in Dickinson, North Dakota tonight. We met Paul and his brother Joe here - they are heading west to Portland, Oregon to meet their other brother. We had dinner at a Japanese restaurant (in North Dakota?) that was quite good. Dickinson has grown very rapidly in the last few years due to the shale oil boom, and there are large, new apartment complexes just outside the city near the Interstate.
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