Wyoming

Woke up in Rawlins and had a look at the map.. called some places near the Tetons and YellowStone and decided to head towards Dubois and a KOA campground there. It was one of the only places that did not charge an arm and a leg to camp that had showers and laundry services... so we reserved a night and started on our way.

We made a geocache route and I used the lap top and new gps program ( gsak and street atlas) to find out what was coming up and get the information about them. It worked really well... we were able to get a few caches along the way that day. Most of them not that big of a deal but there was one called High on Rocks that was pretty awesome. Driving along all day and there is really nothing to see... just brown everywhere... mountains far off.. and then you see these huge piles of rocks. We pulled off to grab an easy cache and while we were there decided to check out the earthcache... it was not that difficult.. would have been easier if we had gone the right way the first time... we started off walking around the rock pile... we needed to climb up the rock pile... and I am so glad we did.. it was easy climbing.. and when we got the top the view was amazing... it just felt like we were on top of the world and the only people for thousands of miles. I really want to go back some day and spend a whole day exploring the rocks.

This is a pool we found while looking for the cache... it is on top of the rocks.. and I noticed when looking through photos today.. it is in the shape of a foot print... hmmmm

When we arrived at the camp ground it was only about 5pm... well some where in the last few hours my cell phone had deicided to jump into centeral time zone.. so I was an hour ahead of everyone for a couple of days.. but I think it was about 5 pm at the camp ground... driving into town ( Dubois ) we knew we would want an extra night there so when we were checking in we asked about another night and there was one open so we grabbed it. The camp ground was awesome... lots of space for each site... we were right on the river again.. and had lots of green soft grass in our spot. There is a game room with pool table and ping pong and some other stuff.. and a HUGE indoor swimming pool. As soon as camp was set up we headed for the pool... and we had it to ourselves... it was so much fun.

( would insert photo here but it turns out we had so much fun that we forgot to take any photos, please click *here* to learn about the great town and *here* to check out the campground)

The next morning the kids took off for town... camping right in town was really nice.... it is one of those towns that shut down early... no pizza after 8 pm... and... it is was quiet the whole time we were there. Dave and I headed out too... we had a couple of caches in town we wanted to look for.. and we had noticed a doughnut place on our way into town. First we stopped at Weltys general store... and we loved it.. wonderful selection of moose things for the house... and hats... we both tried on some hats... big mistake... we both love hats... but we did not buy any... decided to think about it for a bit. We then walked to one end of town and peeked in a few more windows. Went after a cache... in a park... but had no luck.. another cacher showed up... not a very friendly one... and he had no luck either.... reading through the logs this cache has not been maintained and keeps ending up missing. The other cache in town was by the same person so we decicided to skip it. We did find the doughnuts... a bit past where we thought so we ended up walking about 2 miles for them..including the walking around for the cache and checking out the town.... makes them guilt free.. which is good because they were not all that special.. good but not Awesome!

On our way out of town we did stop back in at Weltys and we did each buy a hat :) Mine is a straw cowgirl hat.. and I love it... Daves is a black felt, both are Stetsons. Next purchace will be boots to go with them.. I could wear the boots I have... but... any excuse for new boots is good.