Thursday, September 28, 2017

We left Sundance, Wyoming this morning and took the Scenic Byway down to Guernsey, Wyoming.  We will be staying here three nights, and then Sunday, we arrive at Loveland, CO.....back to civilization!  We are in the boonies, if there is such a thing in Wyoming.  Mostly, we saw wide open spaces, huge ranches, lots of horses and cattle and again, so many Pronghorn Sheep!  I am going to get up close to one to get a good picture, before I'm done here!  We also saw a lot of the wooden snow fence along the highway, as the road runs north to south, and we are east of the mountains, so I'm sure they get lots of snow in the wintertime.  Their roads are wonderful, but not many people on them.  We are in a state park near Guernsey, and have water and electric hook ups, and the spaces are huge, and open, but it looks like they had a terrible fire in the park, not too long ago.  Both sides of the road was burned as we drove in the first part, but we see no sign of fire, where we are parked.  That is so tragic when you see the forests burned out.  We have no over the air television, so Jim is setting up our DirecTV dish, so we can at least, keep up with the news and weather.  We are back to sand burr country!  They are nasty!  I have about 40 caches loaded for the area, and it looks like a very interesting stay.  I'm going to convert all of you followers, to become a geo-cacher, before we're finished with this trip.  Honestly, if it weren't for geo-caching, we wouldn't be seeing all of these interesting places.  The trees are very green here yet, so we're happy about that.  We know the higher elevation in the Rocky Mountain Nat'l Park will have a different look.  The Aspen and Birch trees are glowing gold right now, I'm sure.  I do think we will be hitting it at a good time next week.  So, if you don't hear anything from us, it's because of lack of internet service.  I won't even try to post pictures on here today, because our Verizon MIFI is 1X and 2 bars!  Not good.  I promise to bombard you with pictures and information when we get to our next place on Sunday!  Our phones don't work here, either, so we'll check them when we go caching tomorrow.