Thursday, August 23, 2007

Thursday And We're In................

Gillette, WY, Wally World parking lot. I turned on the computer and a hot spot showed up so will use it. Left old YS about 0930, found a geocache outside the east gate and then tooled on down the road. We came to a construction area and had to wait for the pilot truck. While we were waiting we talked to a couple in front of us on a Harley. They were from Seattle and heading (?), forgot to ask them. Anyways, they asked us if we saw the bear on the way out of Yellowstone this morning. Naturally we didn't so the lady was gracious enough to show us the bear on her digital camera. Guess you gotta keep your eyes wide open; or, snooze and you lose! We stopped in Cody and visited the Buffalo Bill Historical Center. I think it just used to be the Buffalo Bill Museum; but, it has now greatly expanded. We visited the gun collection first.........one could spend days there, there are 1,500 weapons displayed on the main floor and we saw a sign that if you wanted more there were another 1,200 in a different area. We then checked out the Buffalo Bill sections, then the American Indian section and after about 2 hours we decided we should be on our way. Had to stop at their snack bar first 'cause "B" wanted a Buffalo Burger......I did too. When we ordered the kid told us he only had one buffalo burger left.....naturally I didn't get it and had to settle for a cow burger. Actually they looked the same to me. I wouldn't know about the taste because someone else ate the entire buffalo burger! I kept telling Becky that somewhere in a canyon there were signs showing the age of the rocks, 350 million and more years old. I couldn't remember where they were and we finally found them east of Greybull. Some of the signs said the rocks were 2.5 billion years old. I think Becky got some pictures of the signs as we went speeding past and will try to post them later. We arrived in Gillette about 2030, gassed up at the Flying J, was going to stay in their parking lot but too many trucks. Found WalMart a short distance away so here we sit with about 10 other rigs. Tomorrow we head for Devils Tower and then to Rapid City. Will try to get a place on the Air Force Base, if we do then we'll probably stay for three days. If not (?????) don't know what we'll do. I keep losing the wifi connection I have so will try to post then and then hit the old hay.........been a long day. W&B

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