HagaFinn RV Trip Day Six (Devils Tower)

Eastward to the Tower

Today we had a short trip from Buffalo Eastward to Devils Tower.  Weather again was hot for us, in the high eighties, but it was a very pleasant drive and we arrived at Devils Tower in the early afternoon and our national senior pass did its work and we got in without a fee.  We haven't been using it too much so far, but plan to use it on this trip quite a bit.  Neil used to manage the federal lands pass program for the Forest Service in Alaska and knows that it is a great deal for seniors--probably too good.

Even though it was plenty warm, we decided to take a hike all the way around the tower (OK, it was only 1.3 miles) and had lots of photo ops along the way.  Here are a few photos:

As you can see, we had wonderful blue sky and it wasn't too hot for our walk.  We actually saw several couples with baby strollers, which didn't make sense to us, but to each their own.

We got back off the mountain and checked in to the Devils Tower KOA which is exactly where the army camp in the movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" was filmed--in fact, it was proceeds from that movie that allowed the rancher to build the current KOA.  The movie was released in 1977, and the KOA Kampground has been showing it every night since, so we got ice cream cones and watched it again.  There were several parts of the movie we had forgotten, and it was pretty cool to see it in the shadow of Devils Tower.  It made for a great day, and we got exercise from the hike and enjoyed the movie as a topper.  Next, we back track to Gillette for the national Escapees RV Escapade.  Escapees is a RV Club that holds rallies and training across the country.  Learn more by visiing:  http://www.escapees.com/

Fair Winds and Calm Seas,

Neil and Pamela