Montana Trip - Day 2

[left hotel around 0800 - beautiful (cool) morning - drove to nearby Washita Battlefield - toured the new visitors center (only one there) and watched movie - drove to Battlefield site and toured it with ranger and one other person - learned a lot about Oklahoma Indian Nations - more dry riverbeds... - finished around 1145 - then on my way west again - used back roads (OK-47) into Texas - then farmroads (some gravel) - located site of last scene of the movie "Cast Away" - drove on gravel farm roads back to TX-152 drove to Pampa and then on to Lake Meredith - Canadian River - drove around the lake (north) and located the dam - lake almost empty - found a few day use sites but missed the visitor center (south side) - got back to US-__ and then filled up with gas in Dumas (same place as 2010?) - used US-78 all the way to Capulin, New Mexico (good road, but I missed the chance to use a four lane...) - ominous clouds in the distance... - terrain finally changed to rolling (green!) hills - temps also much cooler (nice!) - arrived at Capulin Volcano (looks like Vesuvious) at 1720 (too late to go up) - checked in town (population 49) for lodging and found a cabin - drove back to Des Moines to have dinner (Mexican - green chili) at Sierra Grande (the big, Etna like volcano behind the restaurant) - drove around Volcano (Folsom - destroyed in the early 20th century by flash flood - location of archaeology discovery of spears in mammoth bones) and back to camp ground - lighting and thunder all evening (scared horses) - worked maps and internet to plan route - bed around 2130L (!)]