This was an eerie sight as we traveled south towards Rawlings

This is my one regret of the trip, I didn’t have enough time to really see everything in this museum. I’m coming back!

Charlotte says goodbye to the buffalo as we leave Yellowstone

We said goodbye to our hostess, Peggy Riggs, and headed back down through Yellowstone Park to cut through to the highway going south towards Cody, Wyoming.  Everyone had told us there was a museum in Cody that was worth the trip.

We drove into Cody after stopping to let buffalo cross the road in front of us.  There is a Buffalo Bill Cody Museum that actually houses four separate museums.  One is Western art with a large number of bronzes by Remington and others.  It would take a day just to go through that part.  The part I wanted to see is the Firearms Museum.  This museum could take two days.  They have the most fabulous collection of firearms you could ever imagine.  I walked hurriedly through part of it, taking pictures and reading the information posted beside the weapon.  It was amazing.  I would highly recommend going through Cody, Wyoming and allowing a minimum of a day or two just to tour this fabulous collection.

It was amazing how the terrain changed as we dropped out of Yellowstone and turned south.  The land turns almost desert.  There was a fire burning somewhere to the west and the smoke almost blocked out the sun in the afternoon.  We took a couple pictures of it.  It was kinda errie looking.  Because of the extra time I took at the Museum in Cody, we didn’t get to Rawlings until 10:00 p.m.  All the virtual hitch hikers were asleep so we just left them in the trunk after locking up the Moose Drool.

We have traveled almost 4,000 miles on our trip.  We are about 285 miles from Aspen, CO, our next stop on Sunday.  We will be staying with our good friends John and Betty Jones.  I want all you virtual hitch hikers to be on your best manners as we roll into Aspen in the old truck and begin our celebrity watch!  No throwing cans or wine bottles (Edge!) out of the truck.