Candlewood Suites Sheridan

We spent the night at Sheridan, a classic western town, we went down town in the evening where the locals enjoy a fair called "Third thursday", it appears that every third thursday they close the main street at 5 pm and everyone comes out to mix and ...

... and minor geysers. Waited over an hour for Old Faithful to erupt. It was faithful.
Headed out of the park and climbed the bighorn mountains. Steep curvy road up and down. Hit some construction but made it into Sheridan, Wy by late afternoon. Ready for the home stretch.

... I am still enthralled.

Our day was filled with the many wonders of the Big Horn Canyon National Recreational Area. The most notable aspect of the Big Horn River was not that it has been dammed, but that it is full and fast - still flowing and often with white water above the plant line due to the spring rains. We expected brown hills, but we have the crazy-green hues of a Washington, DC April ...

Stop to check out a covered bridge, but it was recent construction, kind of lame.

Decided to look for food, in the mood for oriental. First we find gas for $2.39 a gallon! The find te buffent and end up receiving WIFI in the parking lot! Then the buffet has CRABLEGS.

Needless to say, we a both full for the evening (6:30pm local time). We're still around 110+ miles from Devils Tower, maybe tent, maybe not?

... in Alabama and he told us how to disassemble the shifting mechanism and release the pawl that was keeping it from going into gear.  It took us two hours but we got it fixed and have had no further problems, and the great good news was that it happened in the parking lot of last night's hotel so we weren't stranded somewhere out in the middle of nowhere.  What's a road trip without at least one mechanical puzzle to solve?

We're doing fine.  Stay with us!

 

We drove West on I90 through Wyoming, stopping at Devil's Tower, which is the plug for a volcano. Devil's Tower was originally under ground but through many thousands of years, surfaced. It was in the movie, Close Enounters back in the 80s. There were climbers on this mountain, which if you see the height and slope of this thing the only word that comes to mind is crazy. We bypassed a KOA in Sheridan, a fairly large town ...

... des tâches de neige (nous sommes dans la chaîne des Big Horn, les sommets dépassent les 4000m). Les torrents et les lacs de montagne utilisés en réservoirs d'eau pour les cultures des plaines nous entourent, le ranch se compose d'une dizaine de cabines en rondins en rond autour d'un lodge principal. Les chevaux sont libres dans la pâture voisine quand ils ne sont pas montés et les ...

... camp by the stream and apart from terrible mosquitoes and flies it was great! After dinner we biked up the road further in the fading light to do a bit of animal spotting. The first animal we spotted was a MOOSE! It was feeding on grass in an open meadow not very far from us. We then spotted a WOLF in the grass which trotted around a bit before disappearing into the trees. We also saw deer. So that was all very exciting. It was pretty much dark by the time we got back.

... for leaks. I found a loose metal tube that had broken off from the engine and I tried to bondo it back on. The van was running more smoothly after it had heated up and I figured I would check it again in the morning, meanwhile spending the day and night here.
I started a painting of Sibley Lake and while I was working on it I saw a moose in the ...

When I got up the next morning I was walking along the creek and I saw where somebody had left 13 beers in it to keep it cool. It definitely wasn't my favorite but at least it wasn't diet beer and it would be fine on a hot dry day when I have been hiking.
I headed back into civilization, which out west could be several buildings sitting together. This was Moorcroft where I had breakfast at the Hub Cafe-eggs ...