Day 22 - Drive to Casper, WY - September 8, 2017

Drive to Casper, WY

The drive to Casper was joyous in that we were both happy to be heading back east again.  I don't think either of us regrets taking this trip, but we are glad to be back in modern civilization.  We have realized how much we enjoy our WIFI experience.  Also, the territory after leaving Yellowstone seemed bland at first, but later it became more interesting as we entered the Wind River Canyon area and the Wind River Indian Reservation.  We both immediately realized why this was an Indian reservation....because the land was just about useless for anything, but viewing.  At least that was our prospective.

Entrance to Wind River Gorge 

Big Horn River flows out of Boysen Damn and Boysen State Park

Train Tunnel for tracks which followed the river through the canyon.

What a beautiful place.

Boysen Damn in Boysen State Park.  Eastern Edge of Wind River Indian Reservation.
Wind River Reservation is the 7th largest in the nation.

More of the reservoir created by the Boysen Damn for Boysen State Park.

    All along our travels, especially in the states North and East of Illinois, we have seen these signs and traffic barriers across the major highways.  We keep trying to get a good picture and never could.  Dinah was finally able to snap this from the truck as we drove by.  After a little editing, it is easier to read.  Neither one of us had ever seen this.  So, if the road is closed you just have to go back where you came from?  We were surprised by this, and facinated because they generated much conversation.

The warning signs for closed highways.

    We also saw many fences along the highways that appear to be for directing wildlife to passages underneath the highway to reduce accidents.  We never saw any wildlife using these, but we normally weren't on the highway during their peak movement times, either. 

   We did see more pronghorn antelope in Southern Wyoming and Nebraska that we have seen anywhere else.  We saw a few in Northern Wyoming, but we saw several small herds in Southern Wyoming along highway 26 as we moved east.

We have also been seeing fencing out in the prarie that looks like the picture above.  We are assuming they are wildlife barriers to herd them towards  passes under the highway instead of them trying to cross on the highway.

    Well, we will be spending a couple of days here resting and then we move on to Ogallala, Nebraska.

Link to all the pictures we took on our drive to Casper, WY., here.

LUV 2 U ALL!  We will be in touch.

By the way, I have updated some of the previous posts with links to other albums of pictures for those postings.  If you want to go back to those days beginning with Sept 4th, you will see the links at the bottom of the posts, usually.

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