After our short visit in the Jackson Hole area, we headed east. Wyoming is beautiful, but as you drive along the highway eastbound, the only mountains seem to be in the rearview mirror and the land is barren farmland. An occassional pronghorn is seen in the fiels along the road. Otherwise, its 85 mph straight away. I was doing about 85 and was in the way of a Wyoming state highway worker and he passed me ....
We spent the night in easter Wyoming and headed into Nebraska early the next day. We would ride right past Scotts Bluff National Monument (http://www.nps.gov/scbl) and Chimney Rock National Historical Site. Major landmarks along the Oregon, California, Mormon, and Pony Express Trails.
We spent the night in easter Wyoming and headed into Nebraska early the next day. We would ride right past Scotts Bluff National Monument (http://www.nps.gov/scbl) and Chimney Rock National Historical Site. Major landmarks along the Oregon, California, Mormon, and Pony Express Trails.
Chimney Rock NHS is maintained by the Nebraska Historical Society (http://www.nebraskahistory.org/sites/rock/moreinfo.htm) (not the National Park Service). It too was a landmark to the wagon trains headed west. It has been a landmark for centuries. It is eroding, but it is unknown exactly how fast.
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