Its very hard to leave places like this, so beautiful.
Lots of thermal energy out here, sometimes the sulfur smell is overwhelming.
We leave Yellowstone in the evening and ride a little further in the dark to find a campsite in Cody, WY
Museum of Flight & Aerial Firefighting
We’re riding out in the middle of nowhere when we came upon this big airport, which I had no clue to what significance it was. I ask my navigator if she wants to stop knowing we still have a long day ahead of us to get to the other side of Wyoming. I think she tells me to stop due to my past and love of airplanes. Oh and what a find despite the wind blowing so hard.
It turns out this use to be a popular Aerial Firefighting base used to fight the fires burning in Yellowstone several years ago. They were shutdown shortly after the C-130A crash.
We crawled from the tail to the cockpit of one of the last surviving PB4Y-2 Privateer used against the Japanese in the South Pacific. I barely fit, so you don’t want to be a big person. The C-119 Boxcar was a better stroll and the C-45 Twin Beech was used for the Smoke Jumpers.
I’m seeing the first set of cord/ ply showing on the rear tire. This doesn’t bother me as much as the miles remaining to get to Sturgis/ Rapid City, SD where I would prefer to change the tire. It is normal for me to use the rear tire of a Goldwing until it shows the second cord/ ply. It is very critical to not ride in the rain, which for the most part we do. We get a little disoriented and don’t turn when we should of where we end up on a dirt road. A local says it will come out on the highway that we wanted. So we take it slow, knowing that rear tire is a “May Pop”, kinda fitting way to end our travel to Sturgis after traveling to Alaska.
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