2000+ Miles down and ???? To Go

Hi again bloggers, it's the weary travelers here. Today was a bit quiet. We left Sheridan Wyoming this morning after visiting one of the western stores and completing the transformation of my cowboy cabbie husband into a real cowboy!!! He now has a great black Stetson, some George Strait jeans and a new shirt, all to go with his 5 ft walking stick he got in the Grand Tetons. The only thing left is the boots, but he's drawing the line there, no boots. Dockers just stand out too much in Montana and Wyoming. Cowboys everywhere! Anyway, he looks so cool, I love it !! I have a picture we took of him yesterday, but it's before the jeans and shirt.

We are in Cheyenne, Wyoming tonight in a Holiday Inn. We decided to get a nice room tonight after spending a rough night last night in a local motel in Sheridan. It was so small, I actually took a picture of it! I will post it tonight.

Today we traveled the North/South length of Wyoming. It was a very pretty drive and we saw lots of pretty scenery and lots of wild antelopes in the plains. Cheyenne is a big town and we drove around and around looking for a room for tonight and finally spotted the Holiday Inn. We had a great steak dinner in the restaurant here at the hotel (why not, right? after all we are in Wyoming) and now are going to stretch out and enjoy being still and not moving in the car!

We have traveled over 2000 miles as of tonight. It sure doesn't feel like that, but we have taken a week to do that much. It's not so much each day. We actually have taken it easy each day and not knocked ourselves out at all.

Tomorrow we plan to cross into Nebraska and see the little towns of Gandy and Stapleton which I remember my grandmother talking about. Dad was born somewhere around there. We plan to be in Sioux Falls by Sunday but looks like we might make it by Saturday unless we take a down day and stay in Nebraska for two days.

We figured out that the reason we are so tired each night is that we have been in elevations from 5000+ to 8000+ feet each day since we left Nevada. We seem to hit our room and melt each night. In Yellowstone it got up over 8000 feet and here in Cheyenne we are still over 5000. We are blaming the elevation of course instead of admitting we are just getting older!

We are so happy to hear from some of you who are reading our blog. It's nice to know you are traveling with us vicariously.

Note to Kevin: This "city girl" as you put it, is able to enjoy lots of different things including open spaces. That does NOT change my love for our beautiful City of SAN FRANCISCO. You insist on using the "F" word but the name of our home is SAN FRANCISCO. Practice saying it over and over to yourself and you will get it one day, c'mon now, I know you can do it !!! LOL

Going to close now and start posting some of the pictures we took yesterday at the Little Big Horn Battlefield. We didn't really take any pictures to speak of today. Enjoy the pics!

Keep reading, we love all of you
Wayne and Colleen