I tried to finish this last night, but I had trouble with the Internet signal. I don't know why it is stronger this morning. Oh, it's probably because it is daylight today and it was dark last night. The signal probably couldn't find its way to the satellite in the dark. Yeah, I'll bet that's it.
My friend, Bob, offered to take me to Walmart and show me how to use the self-checkout machine. Well, sure, he can do that, he's younger than me. He promised that Annie would be "wowed" by my new skill set. I told him that Annie is wowed that I can even find my way to Walmart. The expectation bar is set pretty low after 46 years of marriage.
The pictures you see above are mostly from the Buffalo Bill Museum and Ranch in North Platte, NE. The ranch is the white-with-green-trim, three-story building. It is called Scout's Rest because it is where Buffalo Bill would come between tours of the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show. The old buildings would have been more interesting if we hadn't just seen a lot of old buildings at the Stuhr Museum. I did spot a horse that looked like Camelot, our first horse. They also have a drainage ditch plow that is so large that it takes 48 oxen to pull it. It was used in drought years to get water to the fields from the Platte River. I was wowed.
Today, we move on to Curt Gowdy State Park between Cheyenne and Laramie, WY. We camped there with the girls in the 1980s, on our way to Medicine Bow Lodge. And, yes, the Lodge is on the itinerary. The girls will remember the lodge because that was the place where the wall and floor did not meet. I wanted to make a pallet for the field mice on the floor, but you know Annie - she didn't see the humor in the idea. Well, that, and she doesn't like mice. "Let 'em make up their own bed," she groused.
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A Where's Waldo adventure for the kiddos: See if you can spot in these pictures the yellow-jacket that stung Annie!
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