Aug. 21, 2009
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Wyoming in a Nutshell
I can finally put some more pics on here and get on with talking about our trip to Kentucky! After Utah, we traveled into Wyoming.
Isn't this a nice sign? As you will see in future posts, not all states take such care and pride in their welcome signs. When we made our quick stop to get pictures of the sign, we had to wait for another family who was taking pictures of it too. We made a deal with them, take a picture of us and we'll take a picture of you. Perhaps there picture is on their blog somewhere in the blogosphere!
Wyoming was pretty at first and again I was reminded of Oregon.
What doesn't show up very well here are the painted hills of Wyoming. I don't remember now what they called them, but that's what we call them in Oregon. The clay and dirt is in layers of color, and some of the hills are just one solid color of red, green, or yellow.
However, after about an hour or so, Wyoming gets incredibly boring. How boring? Even the billboards on the side of the road complain.
I don't know how well you can see the children on that billboard but they are getting rather grumpy. As the sign says we still had 20 miles to go and this was only one of a series of these signs for Little America.
It was so boring that I ate two whole bags of Cheetos in order to keep myself awake while driving and that was just during the time I drove. Eyebright managed to drive for quite awhile herself but finally had to beg me to take over before she fell asleep. Aside from these billboards, there was nothing to look at.
See,that's me eating a Cheeto. It was so, so, boring that Eyebright had nothing better to take a picture of.
After several long hours though we finally got into Laramie and the Rocky Mountains. Something to see, finally! Unfortunately we didn't take any pictures, or if we did I didn't remember where they were from.
We had hoped to meet a friend in Cheyenne, but it turned out that she wasn't home due to a bad mold. Cheyenne was nice though and we have some other friends from Oregon who have just moved there, after our drive through. It's amazing what this economy is doing! Friends and family scattering to the winds in order to find work.
We were also going to camp in Cheyenne, but the campgrounds were all full due to Pioneer Days. We had to push on to Colorado to find a campground.
I keep hearing that Wyoming is beautiful, so I'll give it another chance on our trip back through, but we'll head up farther north then the route we traveled this time around. First we'll stop and visit my friend though, who had the bad mold. Hopefully she won't have a recurrence of it.
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Aug. 23, 2009
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What Fun!!
Aug. 25, 2009
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Sep. 2, 2009
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I bet it's beautiful when you get far enough away from the highway. (surely?!)