Today we continued our westward or mostly westward progress across the U.S. We left what may be one of the noisiest nighttime RV parks in the western hemisphere, Casper East RV Park, and headed a very short distance west on I-25 before turning west on US-26 when I-25 turned north. As we got further and further from Casper, the buildings dwindled away and we then headed into the high prairie of central Wyoming. There were some ranches that looked like going concerns but they were mixed in with abandoned sites with old decrepit buildings fading into the hard soil. Whether there were ranchers around or not, there were hundreds of pronghorn antelope happily grazing on the abundant scrubby vegetation. They are magnificent creatures.
About halfway to Lander, we crossed the high point of today’s trip at around 6000 feet of elevation and started both downhill and into more interesting terrain with roadside hoodoos, canyons and rim rocks. We soon entered the Wind River Indian Reservation, crossed sparkling Boysen Reservoir and not too much further drove into the town of Lander. We found our way into the Sleeping Bear RV Park & Campground. It has full hookups and wifi although it took Mr. Luddite quite a while to get connected. The sites themselves are slim parking spaces in a full parking lot of RV’s from around the country. This place will do for our purposes. We will be gone the day after tomorrow.
We got some pix of the ranches and flats during today’s drive. Click the asterisk *