Devils Tower to the Continental Divide

After # we had a day on the road. First up, was a visit to Devils Tower National Monument up in the northeast corner of Wyoming. I remember watching Close Encounters of the Third Kind as a kid and never expected to actually see this place. What a treat when I saw it from a distant.

The plan was to take the walking trail around the base of the tower, but then we saw the line to drive in …

… and knowing how long of a drive we had for the day, we opted to visit the trading post just outside the entrance for souvenirs and selfies!

What a funky and cool freak of nature – so glad I got to see it!!

That long drive was all the way across Wyoming! What do you see in most of Wyoming? Well… scattered antelopes to start with.

You also see a LOT of rocks.

Eventually you wander into the Wind River Reservation. If you didn’t see Wind River, it is a solid movie that brings light to terrible tragedies that happen to so many Native American women.

I was a bit excited to see we got on US Hwy 287 which is Main Street way back in Saginaw, TX, near where I grew up. After you see the river and the beautiful red clay cliffs, you start crawling your way up the Rocky Mountains.

It was a cool experience to drive over the Continental Divide on this trip.

Then we started our descent down the other side of the Rockies. Toward nightfall, we finally saw the Teton Range in the distance where we would spend the next day exploring.

We found out way to Jackson Hole and bedded down for the night.