One thing I love about Mike is that he is often up for a quick adventure. Yesterday we had a window of opportunity, 24 hours, to have an adventure. So, we did!
We headed West... further West. Our first stop was to Independence Rock. We've been there several times before and always enjoy the experience. We like walking the trail around it and we like climbing up on top. This first photo was taken from the top. Those are red ants on that rock!
Independence Rock is such a unique place. It has names pioneers scratched into the stone as they moved West! Now, there is a highway nearby with truck after truck cruising by. Then, though, travel was a different story! Can you imagine travelling 5 months in this early RV?
I hope you can read those. If not, here's the condensed version: People followed the trails (think Oregon and Mormon) for months. Getting across Wyoming could not have been easy. This huge rock was a landmark they looked for and it has a little stream nearby. Many wrote/scratched their names into the rock and some of those names are still easy to see today. We are allowed to climb up to the top and wander around.
You must be very, very brave to get across the deep crevices!
We headed West... further West. Our first stop was to Independence Rock. We've been there several times before and always enjoy the experience. We like walking the trail around it and we like climbing up on top. This first photo was taken from the top. Those are red ants on that rock!
OK, now is when you come to learn just how lazy I really am. Instead of telling the story of Independence Rock myself, I took photos of the signs along the trail.
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I hope you can read those. If not, here's the condensed version: People followed the trails (think Oregon and Mormon) for months. Getting across Wyoming could not have been easy. This huge rock was a landmark they looked for and it has a little stream nearby. Many wrote/scratched their names into the rock and some of those names are still easy to see today. We are allowed to climb up to the top and wander around.
It is a bit of exercise to get to the top, but so worth it for the view!
See, I told you their names are still visible!
I like the little pools up on the top.
You must be very, very brave to get across the deep crevices!
OK, well, it seemed like a dangerous crevice at the time.
Mike was laughing at me.
That wasn't very nice, was it?
The trail around the bottom was also beautiful.
We could see lots of little cave like areas, formed from fallen rock.
We did not go in.
We have heard there are lots of rattlesnakes around there but
decided we didn't need that much adventure.
We were only there for a short time, then it was time to move further West.
As we drove along we enjoyed sparkling conversation. You may not know this about Mike but he is a great conversationist. (My computer is telling me either that isn't a word or I am misspelling it. Oh well. It's my blog, I do what I want!) After 37 years of marriage you might think we have run out of things to discuss. Mike sees to it that we don't have that problem. He asks important questions like, "Do you think a sprinter would be frustrated on the moon?"
Where does he come up with this stuff?
