Day 10: Oma and Jo grab their geocaches this morning and did you know that these statues are in every state?
We are going to have to do a little research on this of course but this is what the sign indicated.
Started our day earlier to get a jump on the driving and any stops we happen to come across along the way that we might not know we wanted to stop at.
The town of Ten Sleep.
Passed this sign and turned around so Oma could jump out and grab a geocache and a photo of the sign to read to us as we kept driving.
Bet you didn't know you would learn a little history from the BS Family Blog?
And then there would be this stop.
One must always stop for Crazy Lady.
It's really a sad story about a family traveling during in the frontier days when they were attacked by Indians, all were killed but the mother. She managed to kill four Indians in a return attack before they left. A mountain man soon found her and buried her family for her. She refused to leave them so this man built a cabin for her and left a warning for other Indians to leave her alone, using the heads of the Indians she had killed. The man who helped her found her at some point deceased in her cabin from malnutrition.
And there you go, a little more history you never thought you might know.
The highways here have pull out parking areas every so often with large dumpsters and nothing more. We used one today for our lunch stop just East of Buffalo, WY. And yes, we managed this stop before any crankiness bubbled over.
So using the "Ten Sleep" travel index we traveled about Six Sleeps to get to one of Mom's bucket list stops (based off a start in Yakima).
Ever since the Close Encounter movie I have always wanted to stand at this site and see it with my own eyes.
We tortured the kids with this movie before we left home over Ten Sleeps ago. They appreciated it for what it was and loved the ending.
Nerd Allert! Do you see it?
I love that my family plays with me.
Oma and Jo hiked a little around the base.
What an incredible site this is. Absolutely amazing and beautiful.
Storm came in as we were heading down the hill and so we decided to stay in the campground at the bottom for the night.
It was a cool storm, lots of rolling thunder and lightning that streaked or filled the clouds with light and then very large rain drops that came down in buckets. It didn't last too long and moved through quickly, plus it cooled down the evening nicely.
Mom is in heaven seeing this image.
Happy Mom and Happy Family.
We are going to have to do a little research on this of course but this is what the sign indicated.
Started our day earlier to get a jump on the driving and any stops we happen to come across along the way that we might not know we wanted to stop at.
The town of Ten Sleep.
Passed this sign and turned around so Oma could jump out and grab a geocache and a photo of the sign to read to us as we kept driving.
Bet you didn't know you would learn a little history from the BS Family Blog?
And then there would be this stop.
One must always stop for Crazy Lady.
It's really a sad story about a family traveling during in the frontier days when they were attacked by Indians, all were killed but the mother. She managed to kill four Indians in a return attack before they left. A mountain man soon found her and buried her family for her. She refused to leave them so this man built a cabin for her and left a warning for other Indians to leave her alone, using the heads of the Indians she had killed. The man who helped her found her at some point deceased in her cabin from malnutrition.
And there you go, a little more history you never thought you might know.
The highways here have pull out parking areas every so often with large dumpsters and nothing more. We used one today for our lunch stop just East of Buffalo, WY. And yes, we managed this stop before any crankiness bubbled over.
So using the "Ten Sleep" travel index we traveled about Six Sleeps to get to one of Mom's bucket list stops (based off a start in Yakima).
Ever since the Close Encounter movie I have always wanted to stand at this site and see it with my own eyes.
We tortured the kids with this movie before we left home over Ten Sleeps ago. They appreciated it for what it was and loved the ending.
Nerd Allert! Do you see it?
I love that my family plays with me.
Oma and Jo hiked a little around the base.
What an incredible site this is. Absolutely amazing and beautiful.
Storm came in as we were heading down the hill and so we decided to stay in the campground at the bottom for the night.
It was a cool storm, lots of rolling thunder and lightning that streaked or filled the clouds with light and then very large rain drops that came down in buckets. It didn't last too long and moved through quickly, plus it cooled down the evening nicely.
Mom is in heaven seeing this image.
Happy Mom and Happy Family.
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