Our trip to S.D. to Help Grandma Quigley move west

We started out on a beautiful Friday morning, 5/25/07, meeting John and Carol down at Nine Mile at her brother Rods place, west of Missoula. Then we stopped at Manhatten to deliver Vals fish for the prep crew.

Everything went ok as we headed on down I 90, and almost right on the WY line the car quit the first time. We got it towed to Sheridan and spent the night, hoping there would be a mechanic to work on it Saturday a.m. I figured there was a fuel problem, either filter or pump. Well, due to Memorial day weekend, there were no mechanics working, so I tried the car again and it started. Both filter and pump are in-tank, a little more than I wanted to attack. I added some fuel treatment to get rid of water etc. and we decided to head out and give it another whirl. We made it another 100 miles or so, 50 past Gillette, and she quit again. I got it going after a little while and headed back to Gillette, making it half way before having to be towed again. We then rented a car and left ours at the dealership to be fixed. After quite a ways, Madison S. Dak., I finally got in the mood for taking some pictures, so took a couple as we were fueling the rental car, which got over 30 mpg. Smiley face.

The little PT Cruiser rental car,(all they had) ran perfectly.
As you can see I was traveling with an extremely tough lot! Some were not quite in the mood for photos, especially the guy in the front!

This picture was taken at Rick and Marshas, our cousin, in their yard. They live near Hartford. We enjoyed a nice evening with them, first dinner at the Olive Garden, then out to their place for desert (rootbeer floats) and some catching up! We need to get together more with all of our cousins.

Sunday after meetings, we went out to Dads grave which is at "Hills of Rest" Cemetery in Sioux Falls. It was a beautiful place, all decorated for Memorial Day.


We loaded the truck on Monday morning. Keith and Kathy had all the packing done, so all we had to do was load the truck.

Then we took a little time to go visit Moms two sisters in Sioux Falls, Florence and Evelyn. I'll put an album on our photosite of some more pictures. Moms sister Cora had been up to say goodby earlier.

We took a drive to visit the cemetery's in the country, as well as some of the places we lived and went to school.

This monument is in the Lennox cemetery near Dads parents graves. The farm we call the Lennox place is only about 1/2 mile from this cemetery.


The next morning we headed south to Omaha, and then west to Kearney, where Connie lives and had a nice little reunion. We also took in some local Oregon trail historical site, including the big Arch over the interstate.


We had trouble with Johnny, who darted off the trail and got stepped on by this big bison. It was all I could do to pull him out of there!! The oldest one is supposed to be a good example, if I remember right!

I think Seth was pretty embarrased by his Uncles!

Then Judy had to get a cup at the coffe shop in the arch. She complimented the waitress on her glasses and said she had some like that, too. The waitress didn't say much, had kind of a waxey complexion. I hope she was ok!

Seth got the best of John on the basketball court. This was just before he collapsed. From then on, the next day started a no-nonsense drive home. Judy and I split off the caravan in Douglas Wy and headed back up to Gillette to pick up our car, which ran fine on the way home. We tied back up with the caravan in Sheridan that night, where we stayed in a motel. We finished our trip home the next day. So alls well that ends well. Lots of good memories.