The Oregon Trail - Day 22

As we left Cody headed east on Alt. 14 Chief Joseph Scenic Highway toward Powell, Wyoming, the sunrise was just beautiful.  I don't think I have ever seen so many beautiful sunrises, sunsets and rainbows as I have during this trip.  There were oil wells and horses all along the highway.  The big crop they were harvesting all along this area was sugar beets.

We made a little side trip into Bighorn Canyon and to Devil's Canyon Overlook.  Just beautiful.  A herd of mountain goats was walking right down the road beside us.   They have beautiful clear yellow/brown eyes.  The unusual mountains just inside the canyon looked to be made of a loose powdery type of substance and we could see lots of tracks where people had been trying to climb the mountain in some type of vehicles, maybe jeeps or 4-wheel ATV's or something like that. 

All along the highway we saw hundreds of antelope.  They really are pretty animals.  One of them ran across the road in front of us and had trouble jumping over the barbed wire fence.  They must not be good jumpers like deer.   We saw almost as many mule deer out in the pastures as antelope. 

Picnic lunch at Selby Lake was good and the weather was perfect.  I saw a little chipmunk sitting on a rock and he stayed put long enough for a quick picture.  They are the cutest things and can run so fast they just look like a streak.

Happy 2nd Birthday, Sidney.  Have fun at your party and we will be home to give you a birthday kiss soon.


Marmalade's Side of the Story

We stopped at a place called Old Town in Upton, Wyoming.  They had moved lots of old buildings and put them all back together so we could see how people used to live long time ago.  Can you believe this old house is made of grass and dirt like Bop used to grow at his grass farm.  It had a dirt roof too.  I liked the chair made out of old vines.  I pretended I was a cowboy sitting on my porch after driving my cows to Oregon.  Nonnie thought the other building in the picture was funny and I don't know why.  I think somebody sick used to live in there.

The whole time we've been gone we have seen lots of play-like buffalo that I can sit on and have my picture made.  This time we stopped in Moorecroft, Wyoming and they had a big Texas Longhorn cow for me to have my picture made with.  That was because this was the re-supply place where all the cattle drives stopped when the cowboys were trying to get the cows out to the west coast.  1898 was a long time ago to be coming all the way out here with no roads or trucks or hotels to spend the night in.  I am glad I was not a cowboy back then.  I just want to be one now and wear big boots and a cool hat. 

I got to sit on another buffalo.  This one is in front of the Rocket Motel where we stayed in Custer, South Dakota tonight.    Nonnie and Bop went out for supper while I took a nap and do you know they ate at a place called the Dark Horse and Nonnie ate a buffalo burger!!!!  Can you believe she actually ate a buffalo?  What was she thinking? 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SIDNEY!!!!!

I'll be home soon to give you a birthday hug.