August 14,
2017
I noticed my
humans are getting lax with me. I must
up the game. Today when they moved me
from the little house that moves into the big house that moves, I darted
outside. I didn’t give them a chance to
rest. They had to come after me. I whined, but I was really happy that they
got me. I could have made a run for it,
but what would happen if they didn’t come after me? And my paternal human got another mousie in
his toy. I think that is cheating.
My morning
walk took me on a little road up to the Boysen Dam and power plant. You can see little dirt roads across the river,
so this is how they make it across.
Trailers are not recommended, but I bet Hannah could have made it. But, some other time. Back to Hannah, with Cody, Wyoming in the
GPS.
We start be
going through the Wind River Canyon.
What a spectacle. The rocky cliffs
on both side form a sharp V. The bottom
of the valley is the road we are on, the Wind River, and the railroad tracks. It looks like we are surrounded on all sides
by cliffs, but we are winding our way through them. We see a deer and a big horn sheep. Nowhere to pull over to photograph them
though. A few miles later, we exit the
canyon to plains with farms, and the town of Thermopolis.
After a good
breakfast, we headed northwest towards the town of Cody. It is a little out of our way, but scenic, so
what the heck. There are contoured
plains as far as the eye can see. Farms
add green. Mountains form the farthest
background. Throw in a few red rocky
buttes and you have a gorgeous landscape. As we get closer, the plains start to get smaller
as the mountains creep in. It was a
beautiful and easy ride.
Spouse wants
to go to the Buffalo Bill Cody museum.
Since that may take a while, we decided to get an RV spot. Didn’t see much in the way of campgrounds,
and the RV parks are a bit large for our liking, but we don’t have much
choice. We got a spot at the Ponderosa
RV Park, close to the center of town. Much to my dismay, when we set Hannah up, I
saw the carnage… I keep my orchids in
the bathroom when we are underway, so they won’t move around. But a six pack of toilet paper jumped its
railing and assaulted one of my orchids!
It bent the stem and knocked a few petals off the flower. It was cruel but I will make sure to give
that toilet paper the shit end of the stick…
We headed to
the museum, which is actually 4 museums in one.
The gun museum… Oh, Spouse, you
are not going to read every thing about all five million guns here, are
you? There are some beautiful pieces,
some dating back 500 years. But after
the first hundred, it is overload. I
will leave Spouse and head over to the Buffalo Bill side.
Buffalo Bill
was a cattle guy, scout, then a showman of the biggest kind. He put the town on the map, literally. There were interesting displays and lots of
variety. I liked this museum.
The natural
history museum and the Plains Indian museum were also interesting. The Indian beadwork was phenomenal. The displays were not overwhelming. After a few hours, we checked out the town
some. We found an Elks Lodge and had a
drink, then headed back to Hannah.
Meanwhile,
back at the Ponderosa… the Sturgis High
School let out… gazillions of motorcycles on their way home from Sturgis are at
the RV park. They have some great setups
and are quite well behaved. We have been
seeing signs since Utah about the roads to Sturgis being all clear, but now
they are coming back… lots of them… and we are going there… Ships passing in the night!
I don’t know
what tomorrow holds, except I do know, I am out of chocolate. This will be rectified tomorrow… And why can I never find my keys? Sometimes I move them out of the way to look
for them! Sheesh…
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