Moved North to Lander, Wyoming

Had heavy rain Monday night and the waves of storms came in and out until 4am.  Didn't sleep very good, the thunder was pretty loud.  Regardless, we were up and on the road by 9am which is becoming our typical move time.

The roads we took were beautiful, no pot holes (Cleveland needs to figure that out - the winters in Wyoming are brutal, so why are the roads so smooth?)  For the first 40 miles we were on Interstate 80 eastbound and then before Green River we started up state roads.  Wide, wide, open spaces.  No trees, the ground is rolling hills covered in sage brush.  Green from all the rains in the past month.

We were also following the main emigrant trails (Oregon, California, and Mormon plus the Pony Express) so every once in a awhile you saw the markers declaring you were on the route.  We passed a small town called Farson and started our gradual incline up.  We needed to get to the southern end of the Wind River range of the Rocky Mountains to cross over and then start up the eastern slope of the same range.  Passed over the "Southern Pass" which is the route Jim Bridger, Mountain Man, discovered in the early 1800's to cut off going through the mountain ranges.  As it was, that is still a steep pass.  Lots of markers and sites to see that we passed, will come back another day and take our time to read the exhibits and visit a couple of towns that sprung up along the pass. Then crossed over the Continental Divide.  Will be doing this a number of times this summer.

Didn't feel like we crossed the divide, but we did

One bazaar thing - the warning signs along Route 28 were something we had never seen before.  BIG signs, first about cattle and that they were slow moving traffic; next was about the sage grouse (prairie hen) crossing the road; then came the warning about antelope and that they cross the road at 55 miles an hour; then back to cattle on the road and they are SLOW.  Thankfully we did not see any cattle or pronghorn antelope on the road, just grazing way out.  As for grouse - nada, zip.

I can understand the slow

Did not see these guys

Wow - can you imagine if you hit one of these? 

We are located 6 miles just south of Lander, will be visiting lots of sights here and also drive up to Riverton (about 20 miles north of here) to see what there is to see.  May not be able to do much with the blog right now - have trouble with being in a valley and mountains all around us - very weak signal. Frustrating.  Took all day to figure out how to get on the Internet, tried this, tried that.

Beautiful scenery

As I look out the window of the RV I can see the snow covered tops of the Wind River Range.  Very pretty.  And grazing in the field which slopes up towards the mountains, mule deer, antelope, and we thought a moose but not sure.