Blogs from Thermopolis, Wyoming, United States, North America

Driving through and around Rapid City, South Dakota was making us rethink our decisions on procreation. If having children means you must resort to entertainment gimmicks like “Putz and Glo - that will rock you” or “Old McDonald’s Farm” and other similarly tacky amusements, we aren’t cut out for parenting. Driving past all of this signage was significantly reducing my pre-existing albeit uniformed, cynical and low expectations of this National Monument. But, the Most Exceeded Expectations Award is definitely going to Mount Rushmore! This place / sculpture is just fantastically impressive. What a sight. And, what a feeling of good old fashioned American pride to bear witness to such an amazing endeavour undertaken at a time when not every manual task was conducted using robo... read more

I slept in this morning til 7:30 as I feel in no rush to head out today. I don’t have far to go til my next stop so I am going to take Oscar on a walk along the Platte River. There is a paved trail and quite pleasant I am told. Of course, coffee first then I left to get a bucket of warm water from the washroom for dishes and the little opportunist Oscar, got the last of my coffee from the picnic table. He still got his walk which was really pleasant. Picture. Talked to more people and finally headed out about 11am. I took 26 west heading toward Ft Laramie. At 11:30 I crossed the border into Wyoming and the sign said “Wyoming, forever west”. How true that is. There is a ... read more

Up late today - 8.40 - so very little breakfast left. Catherine hunter/gathered for us and we snacked. Then onto the Dinosaur Museum and tour in Thermopolis. The museum was great including a Supersaurus called "Jimbo" - the tour was even better including a visit to a dig site with both bones and footprints. My first dinosaur dig-site! The ride in the bus was also very entertaining - I think I got some good video. After the tour we went round the shop and then headed on highway 120 over towards Cody. Watching the height on the GPS we touched about 5600 ft at one point before coming down a little into Cody. Cody is a great holiday destination - and the gateway to Yellowstone. We have a duplex booked for about a week and when ... read more

We spent a day in camp today. Virtually the whole day lounging around the pool. There are 3 sections with each section increasing from one end to the other. The first section is around 100 degrees. The second section is about 106 degrees. The last section is around 118 degrees. So, we spent two hours in the hot springs pool this afternoon and visited. We are the middle agers. Many baby boomers coming for a little revitalization in the minerals. We enjoyed the pools but got a little well done. We went back down this evening for a final dip. We also had Fred and Ethel out for awhile. They are a little cooped up but we will be home soon enough. Fred is the character and is always giving us the evil eye for keeping ... read more

Geo: 43.6461, -108.211Day 5We got an early start out of Brighton, heading north on I-25 toward Cheyenne. We stopped briefly in Fort Collins as I had never been there. We took a quick tour of the Colorado State campus, stopped at Starbucks in the historic district and were on our way again.Weather was ugly. In the 30s and raining. It let up a little when we hit Cheyenne, so we headed to the Cheyenne Frontier Days Museum. Took some photos of the bronzes outdoors, hit the gift shop but didn't take time to tour the museum, although it was open on Sunday morning. It seems Cheyenne must have had a cowboy boot charity event, similar to the cows in Chicago. They were all over town, painted creatively. I took photos of 6-8 to use for scrapbooking. ... read more