So it’s been a while since my last post but as time goes on it will all become clear!

Anyway, we drove from The Black Hills to Devil’s Tower.  It was clear and beautiful when we got there and we camped right at the base of the tower.

The campground is where the cast and crew lived during the filming of Close Encounters.  It’s way out in the country with not much around it except beautiful scenery.  The next day we went to the park and walked around the tower.  It was very foggy and Mark kept telling it was a cloak for the aliens.

Because there was snow predicted we decided to make a run for Cheyenne.

Here is the beautiful capital of Wyoming.  We walked through it.  Very impressive.  Wyoming is the Equality State because it was the first government in the world to give women the vote!  They also had the first woman governor.

 Mark with a bison and me with a dinosaurfemur.  The last full week of July  Wyoming celebrates Frontier Days in Cheyenne.  I was sitting on a curb slightly hung over in 1965 when a cowboy from the parade rode his horse into a bar for a beer.  Today the town isn’t so much Hell on Wheels as a big old LTD circa 1990 slewing down the road.  It’s all cleaned up and sanitized, but the memories are still fresh and ripe!

Here is a high point of the trip for me!  We went back to the University about 50 years after I began my education there.  Like Cheyenne, it has really changed!

The great old buildings are all there including Old Main pictured below and the dorms I stayed in.  They are adding on to the Half Acre Gym and they have rebuilt the Student Union, but the flavor and the prettiness of the campus still abound. What floored me was the distance from one end of campus to the other didn’t seem nearly as long as when I was plowing through the snow in 40 mph winds with my hair freezing after swimming.

We saw a great museum in the Geology building, drove up to the Snowy Range, and toured the old Territorial jail which was once a place that incarcerated Butch Cassidy.  When I went to school here the jail was used as a barn for the Ag Deptartment.  So glad they recognized the great history there and fixed the place up!

Next we took two days and went to Utah.  I will post about this soon!