2008 August 11 « The Voyage of the Cacafuego

August 6 – Wyoming

We left Yellowstone early this morning, in an attempt to get to Boulder, Colorado, before night.

We were delayed temporarily by this herd of elk.

So anyway, there we were, driving through Wyoming.

Which, actually, is surprisingly pretty in the northwest region (and through most of it, really).

We are still in the place of the huge vast sky.

Dad loves Wyoming.

I took a lot of pictures from the front seat.

We hit traffic and major construction in the Grand Tetons National Park, which was surprising, so for three or four hours we were only going about 35mph (or none at all).

There really isn’t much to say. We drove and drove. We bought gas and coffee. We drove some more.

Then, suddenly, visible even on the map, the landscape changed.

Mountainous on one side, dry and desert on the other.

There was a wind farm.

In Dubois, I visited a yarn store!

As we reached the Wyoming/Colorado border south of Chyenne, we hit rain.

This was the first rain we experienced since Asheville, North Carolina, twenty eight [28] days ago. Exactly. We saw plenty of rain off in the distance, moving past us over the desert, but this was the first we’d actually been in. Crazy.

We got to Boulder late, around 8:30 PM, checked into a hotel, scraped the uhaul on the underside of a thing, had dinner at a seriously amazingly good Thai restaurant near the hotel, and went to bed.

August 11, 2008 Posted by Elinor | colorado, wyoming | | 1 Comment