July 24th Travel day to Devils Tower and some very sad news

We were packing up the trailer and TV when Leon's cell phone rang around 8:00am MT. It was Lucia, Tyler's wife (Leon's boss) calling to tell him Tyler had passed away the night before. We were both shocked. His health had been declining but his death came much sooner than expected. Lucia told Leon he went quickly and peacefully, and that he had been happy the day that he died. Tyler was a great man and Leon loved working for him at C & M Engineering. He will be greatly missed.

It was a quiet commute through the Black Hills of South Dakota into Wyoming. We stopped at the Wyoming visitors center (Route 90, exit 189) to dump our tanks and fill our fresh water at it's modern, clean and free trailer waste station. After dumping and picking up some brochures about Devils Tower and Yellowstone we stayed in the parking lot and made up some lunch (yes, we washed our hands first). Another Airstream had pulled in while we were dumping and the gentleman who owned it came over to chat for a bit. He and his wife had been full timing in their trailer for about 4 months seeing the country and were loving it. This is something Leon and I hope to do someday too. After lunch we hit the road towards Devils Tower, arriving there mid afternoon. We found an available spot in it's campground and set up camp. I found we had a slight cell signal, just enough for me to connect my netbook to my mobile phone for internet access so I searched for flights out of the area so Leon could get home to attend Tyler's services. I did not have too much luck, pricing was quite high so we made the decision to change course and head to Denver, CO so Leon could take a Southwest flight out on Tuesday using some of my banked tickets. After booking Leon's flights we walked around the campground a bit before making dinner and retiring for the night.