After bidding farewell to new friends also parked at Walmart...Jan in a Country Coach and Chief and Judy...and fueling at Flying J, we got on the road at 9:20.
Not long after leaving Gillette, we saw a big herd of antelope. There were a few cows in among the wild critters, but mostly antelope.
It was great being back on the go, singing along with Willie Nelson...”On the road again...” We were on I-90 until we got to Buffalo. Hwy. 16 took us over the Big Horn Mountains to Ten Sleep. It was a beautiful drive, but a big climb from 4700 feet to over 9600 feet.
The side of the road was blanketed with wild flowers. We stopped at a pullout area at Powder River Pass to eat lunch and rest. And from there it was down hill all the way, literally, for 18 miles. And then we arrived in Ten Sleep, population 260. There was a temperature change from 54° to 83°.
Ten Sleep was an American Indian rest stop, so called because it was 10 days travel, or “10 sleeps,” from Fort Laramie (southeast), Yellowstone National Park (west-northwest), and the Indian Agency on the Stillwater River in Montana (northwest). (Info on this unusual name for a town was from Wikipedia.)
We arrived in Worland at 3:30 and were soon on the hunt for some caches. It was hot...92°...so as soon as we found one we jumped back in the cool car. The last one we found was one that Mike and Wendy found three days ago. That doesn’t happen to us very often when we are in an unfamiliar area.
Today’s Travel Totals: Mileage, 163---Geocaches, 4---Critter sightings, lots of antelope and sheep.
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