Discovery August 10, 2006 – Tour Day 7

South Dakota Sites worth investigating

This morning we’ll visit world famous St. Joseph Indian School where the outstanding Akta Lakota Museum
offers a view of the Native Americans whose lives were greatly affected by the course of events set in motion by the discoveries of the Lewis & Clark expedition.

The Corps:”Then we’ll travel the area where the Corps encountered their first “hostile” natives. After a day full of natural wonders”

Our tour group will stay overnight at the Country Inn in Bismarck, ND. (L)

Enroute, our travel group stopped at… Continue reading

Discovery August 9, 2006 – Tour Day 6

Discovery August 9, 2006 – Tour Day 6

Today’s agenda includes the unique geological formation of Spirit Mound (reputed to be the home of 18? devils) which the Corps climbed on their passage upstream. Our travel companions did the same as you can see from a 50X lens at bottom of Spriit Mound.

Gavin’s Point Dam, the site of the first encounter with the Yankton Sioux and an authentic meal served on the banks of the Missouri River top off a… Continue reading

Discovery August 8, 2006 - Tour Day 5

The journey continues with a tour of Fort Atkinson, yet another frontier fort

built on the recommendation of Wm. Clark. The most impressive site was the detention boxes

We also toured the Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center in Sioux City. Two displays caught our eyes.

One was the display of a campsite using a recorded story presenting Lewis in camp with his dog Seaman. The sound of a dog barking could be heard throughout the museum as the dog moved back… Continue reading

Discovery August 7, 2006 - Tour Day 4

Two months after departing from St. Louis, the Corps of Discovery was still in present-day Missouri. Fortunately our latter-day journey is measured in days instead of years.

Before departing the state we toured the historic sites of St. Joseph.

One of the stops was a museum with a model

of statue where the day before we saw the statue itself.

On the route we found a… Continue reading

Discovery August 6, 2006 - Tour Day 3

Lewis noted the Arrow Rock bluff and nearby salt licks on the 1804 outbound journey.

In the morning we visited Arrow Bluff, historic town which grew up around the nearby salt licks.

From Arrow Bluff we visited the Arabia Steamboat Museum for a look at period lifestyles and trade goods,

We were treated to a special lunch a sampling of what explorers and pioneers on the trail… Continue reading

Discovery August 5, 2006 - Tour Day 2

Our journey retracing the steps of the Corps of Discovery begins with a visit to Lewis & Clark State Historic Park, the site of Camp Wood, where the Corps prepared for their epic journey during the winter of 1803.

The first picture we took was of the trail marker with the fort in the background with the morning sun on over our shoulders.

Then we met the interpreter at the fort. This interpreter was a volunteer at replica of the fort. We would… Continue reading

Discovery August 4, 2006 - Tour Day 1

Discovery August 4, 2006: Tour  Day 1:

While Lewis and Clark started their expedition on May 14, 1804, ours started August 4, 2006.  May we mention that August in St. Louis is a really hot season? We have half a day that is free before joining the Tour group about 4 P.M. at the hotel.

After breakfast, we took  the hotel shuttle to the airport where we boarded a light rail train on the way to the Missouri History Museum

We arrived very early. We grew tired of waiting for the shuttle bus and… Continue reading

Discovery August 3, 2006: We were on our own

On our first day in St. Louis we were own our own. Our practice when joining a tour or just flying to a kick off place of a vacation trip is to arrive one day early. We arrived at the Dury inn the day before we were to join the Shebby Lee tour group.

We learned how to use St. Louis’s public transportation, the Metro, on the first day. Since we were advised that the train stop was too far to walk in the heat we were able to take… Continue reading

Discovery - Preparations for the Corp of Discovery

Three years before taking ShebbyLeeTour the Lewis and Clark Corps of discovery tour in 2006, we had an interest in seeing the places where Lewis and Clark Corps traveled. Their story was intriguing to say the least.

In 2002 we joined a Cruise West steamboat tour up the Columbia River

In 2003 we joined Montana RR tour which enabled us to rent a car to see Three Forks and Yellowstone. We boarded the train at Livingston Mr., to proceed all the way to Idaho… Continue reading | 1 Comment

Discovery - Preparations for ShebbyLee Tour

The idea of exploring the western frontier was in Thomas Jefferson’s mind before 1801 A general timeline can be found at http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/archive/idx_time.html and a more detailed timeline is http://www.lewisclark.net/timeline/index.html

“On February 28, 1803, President Thomas Jefferson won approval from Congress for a visionary project, an endeavor that would become one of America’s greatest stories of adventure. ” For addition details we invite check out thee PBS site: http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/inside/index.html

Just as Lewis and Clark made preparations for their long journey, we also prepare when planning a trip. We plan our… Continue reading