The heat wave had really settled in. It got over ninety-five degrees today. We spent some of the cool morning hours at Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. Here General Custer was defeated by the Sioux and Cheyenne. We paid our respects.

We continued on in the heat through the Cheyenne Reservation. We stopped in lame deer for lunch and coca colas. We cruised over our last big pass shortly after. Again I found it interesting how the grasslands gave way to pine in the mountains. Once we got past this peak we'ld be in the Great Plains.

We stopped in Ashland and tried to get a motel room. But the rooms were all full of firefighters, fighting the summer's forest fires. Over the pass we could see and smell the smoke. We made for red shale campground, which was pretty much overgrown. There was also no well. By morning we needed water really badly. The shale here is red of course, glazed with layers of blue and black. It looks more like pottery than rock. Today our grasshopper plague began. Ever step we took made twenty grasshoppers spring up at us.