Brigham City, UT to Hot Springs, SD 9/17 - 9/22/08

Sorry to be so slow but we have not had access to wifi for the past two nights. The theme of these days has been mountains, fossils, trails, and trains.

We have had some real highs and real lows.

The highs include being led through a large flock of sheep by a sheepdog in northern Utah, seeing three geysers erupt in Yellowstone, picnicking on Jackson Lake with the Tetons reflected in the lake.

The lows include ice on the tent near Yellowstone, rattlesnake warnings, and a campground in Bayard, NB with no water, trees or other campers (we did not stay).
We enjoyed visiting the cabin where Butch Cassidy planned the robbery of the Red Lodge bank and the Oregon Trail landmarks, Chimney Rock and Scottsbluff.

Bill missed a turn in Wyoming and took us through Antelope Valley which lived up to its name and turned out to be the location of Bill, WY. Bill was blown away by the number of coal trains running through his town.

The Adventures of Super Grandpa: Grandpa was so impressed by the western artwork using elk horns that he started his own collection of horns to take back to Easthampton to make into furniture, door handles, etc. Grandma (Manga) was proud of his large collection of horns and delighted that he had found another medium that fit his artistic talent. However, she thought that the pointy horns would be too uncomfortable in the car so she donated them to the town of Jackson Hole, WY where they made them into arches for the town park.