A Visit Around Buffalo

Monday and Tuesday was spent just doing inside stuff, we had rain off and on and the temperature was pretty cold - dropped down to 41 at night - but during the day was a cool low 60s.  Quite a change for the mid 90s we experienced on Saturday and Sunday. I was able to get some sewing done and Dave did some projects around the RV.

With the rain and low temperatures, the Cloud Peak Wilderness area west of Buffalo, the same area we traveled over Sunday, got snow.  We were surprised yesterday morning when we drove into town to grab a breakfast to see lots of snow on the mountain tops.  By the end of the day it had all melted but I can imagine the waterfalls that grew due to the runoff.

Powder Horn Summit

We wanted to visit a museum in town, was given a thumbs up that it was a good one, and the reviews were good so off we went after a horrible breakfast.  Yep, how can you mess up breakfast?  When we walked into the restaurant we were shocked - smoking!  We were ready to turn around when the waitress said that the back room is no smoking, so we took a seat back there.  And waited over 35 minutes for our food, which was not the best.  Why did this place have such a great rating?  We found out it is the ONLY place to get breakfast in town.  Duh.  Never go there again.

Got to the museum, not allowed to take pictures, took the walking tour which was one man's collection of artifacts he had gathered over his lifetime, we remarked afterward that it was a waste of our time.  He was a local pharmacist in town and befriended the Crow Indians and they visited him all the time, often gave him gifts such as arrowheads, beaded wear, headdresses, rifles, ceremonial instruments, quite a collection.  And the man also had a number of antiquities from the early days of Wyoming and Buffalo.  We thought that a good curator would bring the museum up to what we have seen elsewhere, did see a number of misspelled words, many displays the writing was so small or place too high or the lighting was bad, that you could not read what you were looking at. Got back to the campground in time to watch the next set of folks come in for the night. We make it a game - 'uh-oh - incoming' and then try to figure out what make/model of RV, what state they are from, etc.

Bit of history for this area

Snow is melting - looking down Main Street about 3 hours later

We are laying low today, while touring the museum I miss-stepped down a ramp and I think I twisted my ankle.  Not swollen but had shooting pains along the inside of my ankle.  This is the same foot/ankle that I had surgery on, so I want to not walk much today to get it better.