August 8 - Lander to Dubois, WY

The scenery began to change quite a bit as we drove into Dubois where we spent the night in the Wells Fargo Bank parking lot.

August 7 - Leaving Lander

We left the Sleeping Bear RV Park in Lander, WY today and moved into the Lander city park for the night where you can boondock for free and get an early start without bothering your neighbors in the RV park.  You can see our rig peeking through the trees in the top photo.  This river flooded very badly in June but just gurgled quietly outside our bedroom window.  Bottom photo: Our last Lander sunset for now.

August 2 - Lander Cemetery

We walked down the hill from our campground and up the hill to Mt. Hope Cemetery this morning.  This bronze sculpture of an eagle is so beautiful.  We like to visit cemeteries and have never seen anything like this before.

July 29 - Foundry

Pronghorn Antelope

We haven't been yet, but there is a foundry in Lander and the city is full of these beautiful, life-sized sculptures.  Galen couldn't resist taking one of them on.

July 26 - Swingin'

Galen Psyching up to cross the bridge.

After our visit to The Sinks, we drove further up the road to have a picnic and look for a geocache.  The trail to the cache included one of Galen's least favorite things - a swinging bridge.  Swinging bridges aren't good for people prone to motion sickness.  He did fine, we got a nice view of the river, but didn't find the cache.

July 26 - The Sinks

The Po Po Agie River rushes over the rocks, down to The Sinks, and disappears into the side of the mountain.  Two hours later it reappears 1/4 mile further down the hill in The Rise.

Even I can go faster than 1/4 mile in two hours.  :-)   A die test was used to determine that the water from The Sinks is the same water appearing in The Rise, but there is more water going into The Rise than is coming out of The Sinks and no one knows why for sure.  I think it is fun that you walk UP to The Sinks and DOWN to The Rise.  Entrance to this lovely place less than 10 miles from Lander is free.

July 24 - Prison Tour

Cell Block A

Cell Block B - It was this dark even when prisoners lived here.

Cell Block C - The most haunted cell block

The white spots are toothpaste globs used to hang photos, etc.

Cell in Cell Block B

The kitchen.  The dining room is on the right.

Weird painting - the sheep on the right actually appears to turn his head and look at you as you pass by.

The gallows is behind these doors.

Galen and I in the gas chamber where nine men were put to death.  Creepy, huh?

Sad story.  This young girl was seized with an urge to kill someone while making pies.  She poisoned one of the pies and the next day put it in her father's lunch.  Her father died and she went to prison.  She said she didn't know why she killed him.

July 23 - Wyoming Historic State Pen

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After being kicked out of the RVer unfriendly town of Sinclair at 8:15 p.m., we moved on to Rawlins and parked in front of the prison for the night.