hey Bren.....do you know where Jose went?

Poor Ted...woke up Sat morning looking for his new bottle of Jose Cuervos.... finally found it - in the garbage can, empty. Oooops, however did that happen? Moral of the story: Don't go to bed before the girls silly.
July 4.09 in Jackson Hole, watched the town parade, did a bit of shopping, had a great lunch and then headed south to Rock Springs.
Typical mountain day...cloudless & sunny in the morning and then a bit of rain in the afternoon. Dodged some ominous thunder showers on our way south. Met a lovely couple in the hotel from Ohio who were also doing a bike tour. Borrowed some chairs and watched the July 4th fire works from the parking lot beside the hotel.

July 5th. Decided against making the trek to Flaming Gorge which would have been a full day trip south into Utah. Will save that for our next trip when we do Utah and Oregan.

Instead we made a valiant attempt to search for the wild mustangs on the Rock Springs Plains. All we saw was horse poop, prairie dogs and dust. Very disappointing. In hindsight we should have rented 4 wheelers and did our own off roading and probably had more luck. It's a 10,000 acre mountain range with 5,000 mustangs that know just where to hide from nosey tourists.

Continued our day east to Laramie to the Wyoming Territorial Prison which was on Dave's "wish list". What a fablous restoration of a prison that was operational in the late 1800's and housed Butch Cassidy for a few years.



We were fortunate to meet one of the museum's staff who turned out to be the (retired) sheriff of Laramie and a prison historian. We were given a personal guided tour of the broom factory that was operated by the inmates and explained the complexity of the art. None of us ever realized how much detail went into broom making...facinating!!!
Hey Ted...want some more spicy wings and cheesey chili fries...????

July 6th
Found us arriving late last night in Cheyenne, the capital of Wyoming. It was a major laundry night for all of us. Going to tour the down town area and then head north east for Rapid City...sadly we are starting our trek homeward. It's SAD DAY July 6th.