Following the Lewis & Clark Trail (at least for a short while)

Early during this trip,  I actually thought about Lewis and Clark,  and the difficulties of their westward exploration proved to be. 

In particular,  this thought occurred to me the first time that we crossed the Missouri River in Montana.  Remembering watching the Ken Burns documentary on them, I remembered how the Missouri River proved laborious and treacherous when I saw such shallow parts of the river. 

Later in the trip, we would cross the Missouri River when it was positively wide and glorious around Chamberlain,  South Dakota. 

Then we kept seeing these signs on the highway, and I took a picture of one of them,  finally. That one was in Pierre,  South Dakota,  not far from the Missouri River. 

Later,  I took a better picture of another one that was not right under a traffic light. This one was in Chamberlain,  South Dakota,  right in full view of the mighty Missouri River. 

All of this kind of made me want to watch the Ken Burns documentary again when we get back. 

Meanwhile, it felt truly spectacular to see all of these places in person, and get a sense of them, and a bit of a feel for how it must have been back then. 

Apparently, it was an extremely difficult journey for them. 

Yet, it also helped to immortalize them to a degree. 

Again, I think that another viewing of that Ken Burns documentary on Lewis and Clark will happen shortly after we get back from this trip, to both understand it better, as well as a means by which to remember this wonderful trip. 

We admittedly did not stop at too many of these historical sites with connections to the expedition of Lewis and Clark. 

Still, we saw the places, as well as all of the signs. 

And, of course, I snapped some pictures. 

Thought that they would be worth sharing here: