Updated September 13, 2002. (Please email me if you see this page at ken@trainweather.com. Thanks - Ken)

August 21, 2002 - Wednesday (First day - got to Independence, Kansas and includes one of the Little House on the Prairie homes)

August 22, 2002 - Thursday (More of Little House, first successful oil well, cheap lunch at Yates Center, Kansas - ended at Topeka)

August 23, 2002 - Friday (Topeka to Brookings, South Dakota. Few flowers, oneMissouri River valley scene)

August 24, 2002 - Saturday (Includes beautiful pictures of fields of sunflowers plus De Smet, South Dakota, more Little House sites. We made it only as far as Pierre, South Dakota today - too much to see)

August 25, 2002 - Sunday - (Today we went from Pierre, South Dakota to Gillette, Wyoming. We saw the Badlands in South Dakota, Deadwood, and the Devils Tower monument in Wyoming. I got some great photos of the Devils Tower, the one used in the movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," and got to go right up to its base. Today's site may take a few minutes to download since there are a lot of pictures, so be patient (the view of the Tower with buffalo in the foreground is fascinating!)

August 26, 2002 - Monday (Today we drove from Gillette, Wyoming to Shelby, Montana. Included is a rainbow over the Montana fields. Somehow we managed to stay at a motel next to the busy BNSF railyard in Shelby (image how that happened!).

August 27, 2002 - Tuesday (Shelby to East Glacier, Montana. Staying at Glacier Lodge. Includes more flowers and scenes of the Rocky Mountains in Glacier National Park as seen from our resort hotel. Also a very active Amtrak passenger rail station, which sits in front of the lodge)

August 28, 2002 - Wednesday (Today we went on the International Peace Park Tour (covering Glacier National Park and Waterton National Park in Canada), leaving our lodge at 10 a.m., returning at 630 p.m. It included at trip to Canada (the Canadian crossing guards checked everybody's ID and passports and asked the needed tough questions. There was a couple on the bus from Japan and they asked them which airline they flew, which airport they landed at, which airport they were going to leave from, etc.)

August 29, 2002 - Thursday (Today we took the famous Circle Tour in the big red buses. We crossing the Continental Divide twice and I got some beautiful scenery along the way)

August 30, 2002 - Friday (Today was our last day at Glacier Lodge. We drove to Whitefish, Montana for lunch, saw some near decorated bears in a park, plus live bears at an attraction on our way back to East Glacier. Plus sunsets over the mountains from the lodge)

August 31, 2002 - Saturday (Today we checked out of Glacier Lodge and headed west and south to spend the night at Billings, Montana. I got another of my lucky rainbows, this time just outside of West Glacier)

September 1, 2002 - Sunday (We went from Billings, Montana to Casper, Wyoming, stopping at the Little Bighorn Battlefield on the way)

September 2, 2002 - Monday, Labor Day (We went from Casper to Cheyenne, Wyoming today and visited the National Historic Trails Museum in Casper (which had just opened in August 2002) and the Oregon Trail Ruts Historic Site near Guernsey, Wyoming)

September 3, 2002 - Tuesday  (I toured the Union Pacific Steam Locomotive Shops in Cheyenne, Wyoming in the morning and Sarah went to a Cheyenne quilt shop, then we drove to Oakley, Kansas and spent the night in the Annie Oakley motel. If you'd like to see the photos I made of the Union Pacific steam shops and other railroad photos, click here: http://www.trainweather.com/railmidwest.html.)

September 4, 2002 - Wednesday (We drove from Oakley, Kansas to Newton, Kansas and spent the night. On the way, we went through Dodge City where I visited the Boot Hill Museum and cemetery. Also you'll see some stockyards)

September 5, 2002 - Thursday (We came home to North Little Rock today from Newton, Kansas. Took photos of our cats when we got back, about 830 p.m.)

My email is: ken@trainweather.com. For weather forecasts, weather radar, and other weather related links, plus railroad history links, check out my website, http://www.trainweather.com For some neat photos of our Alaska vacation in 2000, click here: http://www.trainweather.com/alaska.html

The sunset below was taken in North Little Rock in 1999. Links for the individual days of the Montana trip will be below the sunset photo. (Ken)