Driving Driving Driving

Today we drove home from our most adventurous road trip. Just to give you an idea of what it was like...watch this video and then multiply the scenery by about 10,000 & you'll get the idea...(and yes, there is an antelope somewhere in the movie--that's why I was filming...can't really see him though...I think he zooms by after the group of fences)


And just for fun, we counted the number of antelope/humans we saw in Wyoming and the score was (drum roll please)...
Antelope 316
Humans 9
(including a cowboy wearing chaps & a big hat rounding up his cattle with his dog at his side)

Anyway...

Our 6-hour drive was broken up a bit by our fabulous stop to 'Register Cliff' and wagon wheel ruts on the Oregon Trail in Wyoming. So worth the jaunt it took to get there. I could have stayed there all day just taking it all in...that kind of stuff is right up my alley!
Just FYI

A couple of the 'signatures' carved into the cliff


Some wagon wheel ruts at Register Cliff...note the lines/indentations in the grass in front of & behind the white post (Official Oregon Trail marker)...that's where the wagons traveled along the Oregon Trail!!

Wagon Ruts & Register Cliff...(the really old signatures like the ones pictured above are around the back of the cliff, protected by fencing)


Emma at the Pony Express Station historic marker

And in another spot further west, the wagons had to travel OVER these sandstone rocks...carving out a wagon-sized road through the rocks (nobody said "hey, here's an idea...let's go around the rocks"??) So cool...glad they didn't!!
Us at the Oregon Trail National Historic Site sign

Oregon Trail

Emma towards the bottom of the ruts (the trail goes up the hill behind her)--


Stop me...I could go on all day...