Headed back to Cheyenne through Yellowstone National Park, as Jamie wanted to check out Cody, Wyoming. We stopped briefly in Yellowstone, too many people and we were in Yellowstone a few years earlier.
The Shoshone National Forest was breathtaking. Absoroka Range is made of huge rock formations, many resembling cliff dwellings. We discussed how much they reminded us of the Gila Cliff dwellings in New Mexico. The towering cliffs makes your mind wander to another time and place, cultures long gone. We wondered about the first people traveling through the area on horseback in uncharted territory. How brave and exhilarating that must have been. So rugged and beautiful.
Cody wasn't all we were expecting. We did venture through the museum. Interesting exhibits on the history of the land, wildlife and early explorers. Bean loved the huge animals. We let her shoot a rifle--thrill of thrills. She could be dangerous in a few years when she figures out how to really handle a weapon.
I took over driving from Cody to Casper. Highway 20 winds through the most amazing canyons. Was difficult to drive at times I just wanted to take in the views and look at the ancient rocks and canyons that dropped off just off the road. A sign I drove by explained the canyon rock was pre-cambrian, millions of years old. Pre cambrian rock on one side and beautiful flowing river on the other. The day was heating up.
Driving along I was taken back to the different landscapes along the way. I am always in awe of nature. Emerson's nature came to mind driving through vast landscape of Wyoming "all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball. I am nothing. I see all." (RWE) It does seem you see all when you're in nature. Your senses seem awakened and alive. Pulsing. This day I woke in the mountains, through the forest and hot springs of Yellowstone, the rock cliffs of the Shosone forest, into precambrian rock canyons through small western towns to the prairie. There is nothing for miles just the road, nature and the natural landscape. It's always refreshing and uplifting to see the undisturbed land so vast unfolding in front of me. It's a peaceful feeling.
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