We are going to visit Cody, Wyoming again, and for a while I was excited that I would get to see Mr. Brad’s son Justin, but then I found out that he would have to leave to see his mom in Ohio before we arrived. Then we got an invitation to come with them to […]
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If you have been keeping track, you will notice that we are retracing many of our stops 20 years ago on our first cross country. Chris loves Lander, WY so of course we had to stop here again. We both remember visiting a ghost town during that trip and I bought a quilt from a
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Devil’s Tower is the first national monument. It’s also Dad’s favorite monument . Personally I don’t understand why, to me it just looks like a tall stone tower, but to each their own. Devil’s Tower (know by the Native Americans as Bear Lodge) is also the tallest thing we have seen on our trip. It
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We have spent the past two days exploring our corner of Wyoming around our base of Douglas. Yesterday we headed to Ft Laramie and the town of Guernsey. We packed a picnic lunch for Ft Laramie and enjoyed their picnic area before heading into the actual fort. While walking to the Visitor’s Center we were
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This week we visited another bone 🦴 site, “yay”. This one was mostly mammoths 🦣 and not Woolly mammoths, well there were two Woolly mammoths but Colombian mammoths were the most common there. Colombian mammoths are the biggest type of mammoth that they’ve found there. The reason that all the mammoths were there was because
Yesterday we arrived at what I have always felt was the real gateway to a Western adventure, sorry St. Louis. Devils Tower, a unique 800+ foot tall natural rock tower, was made 50 million years ago from magma filling up the void of a volcano and slowly cooling. The extremely slow cooling cycle caused huge
Another early morning for us resulted in sweeping view of the Black Hills. We started the day with a wildlife drive through Custer State Park. If yesterday was the day to see ALL the bighorn sheep, then today was the day of the Pronghorn. Along with lots of pronghorn, we happened upon a small herd
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Normally we only stop occasionally on the way to our campsite to get fuel and go to the bathroom, but today we stopped no less than three times to look at famous landmarks and monuments. The first place we stopped was Chimney Rock. Chimney Rock is the most mentioned landmark in journals made by migrants
This week we went on a boat 🚤 ride. We rented a Pontoon boat and a raft and some water skis. Bother and I rafted until our fingers felt like falling off. We both also tried waterskiing, neither of us were very good but we did try. We also saw a bunch of dark brown
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Nebraska has amazed me. We are camped at Lake McConaughey in Ogallala, Nebraska for the week. It is beautiful. This lake is the largest in Nebraska and has over 1500 camping spots! It also has beautiful white sand beaches. Nebraska’s soil in this area (known as the Sandhills) is only sand. No topsoil in sight.
