Wyoming!!! Day 4!!!

How is it possible that we have only been on this trip for 4 full days??? We have seen so much. Herb wants everyone who will listen to know that we saw a badger. He was really excited. We left Boulder at a reasonable time this morning and stopped at Johnson's Corner (see pic above), a historic truck stop in our Roadfood book, for lunch. Actually, it was really good. I had a tuna melt. Then it was on into Wyoming.

Wow!!! I am not sure in my 34 years that I have seen anything like Wyoming. Pictures could not do it justice (especially from a non-photographer like myself). It is hard to describe, but for one, it has no people in it. We drove for hundreds of miles without seeing a person, a house, a telephone pole, a gas station or a billboard. It was just empty rocky outcroppings and flat grasslands literally as far as the eye could see. Unlike the East Coast mountains, which have trees and greenery, the mountains here are red, rocky, often much like I imagine Mars looks. And there are no signs of life. Thank goodness we had a full tank of gas. After about 250 miles like this, there started to be some signs of habitation. We are now about 80 miles from Yellowstone in a motel/RV stop called the Longhorn. It seems like it is in the middle of nowhere but is about 3 miles from a Western looking town that clearly caters to tourists. (The picture above of the river is in the backyard of our motel.) Tomorrow it is on to Yellowstone for a few well picked hikes and then we are staying in another cabin type place on the other side.

What a great trip!!!! Everyone should see the country this way. It actually is comforting to know that there are still such vast empty spaces in this country. I had no idea that someplace like Wyoming existed.

By the way, Herb and I came up with a new term yesterday for the conversations that many fit Colorado women seemed to be having with eachother while going up the trails--hikotherapy!!! While Herb and I were puffing and heaving trying to get up the strenuous trails, all of the Boulderites were talking about how to better communicate with their husbands, etc. The trail seemed to be quite easy for them. It was very amusing. As Brendan told me, Colorado is the most fit state in the country!!! It shows!!!