Visited the Lincoln Monument in Laramie WY – we were so
impressed with the sculpture! WOW! The Lincoln Highway goes from Times Square to
the Golden Gate Bridge (3,389 miles) and this monument is situated on the
highest point of the highway at 8,640 feet.
We then had a tour around the Wyoming Territorial Prison
Historic site (where Butch Cassidy was interred for 18 months). Interesting place but as we were inside the
prison I started to feel very funny and had to go outside. It wasn’t particularly claustrophobic so I
don’t know what that was all about. At
any rate, there were other exhibits outside the prison so it was all fun to
explore.
I-80 through Wyoming has been quite unexpected. Because we have previously been in northern
Wyoming through Yellowstone, Grand Teton and the Devil’s Tower we were
expecting the terrain to be similar – NOT!
The first hour after Laramie was flat farmland, then an area of hills
which still have snow, and then after that it was flat desert. After 3 hours we suddenly started seeing some
amazing rock formations and we’ll take some photos of those tomorrow morning as
we stopped at the first available place.
We’re in a hotel tonight because the campgrounds we saw,
which were few and far in-between, left a lot to be desired.
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