Day 13-June 11


We have left the lakes behind and continued our journey.  Our next stop is Fort Robinson, just west of Crawford, NE.  We want to see the buttes in this part of Nebraska before heading to South Dakota.
It is time to do laundry again and pick up a few things at the grocery store.  There is a storm threatening so I don't know if we will get a hike in today or not.  The laundry took forever but it worked out great for me because I was able to pick up Wi-Fi in the parking lot.  We grabbed a burger at the local Drive-In and headed back to camp. 
The storm finally moved on and we were able to take a tour around Fort Robinson.  The fort has been well preserved, enabling us to get a good idea of what it looked like during its early years in the 1870s.  This is the fort where Crazy Horse was being detained when he was killed while trying to escape. The fort has been used for many different military and civilian enterprises over the years until it finally became a state park. I thought it was interesting that they actually tested the first bicycles here to determine if they could be used effectively by our soldiers during WWI.  I can just imagine our guys riding into battle on those bikes with the huge front wheel.  Our walk was very nice and longer than we had anticipated.  They have an old train track bed that has been converted to an excellent walking track so we checked it out until the mosquitoes ran us inside.

Buttes surrounding Fort Robinson.





A friend we met on our walk.