What impresses me the most about driving through Wyoming is the intense barrenness of the countryside. It’s not to say there’s nothing going on, but the goings on don’t involve a lot of people or development. Just miles and miles of cattle ranches and oil rigs….and nothing else. There’s so much Nothing that the Nothing becomes Something. The drive begins to feel like a race back to civilization before the Nothing swallows me up.
We successfully arrived in Cody today and linked up with the students from Memphis and St. Cloud. I haven’t met the St. Cloud folks yet but their tents are pitched next to ours in our very favorite Ponderosa Campground.
Driving through the Bighorns was a dicey operation this year – driving through a rain storm which became flurries as we approached the mountain pass. There’s still a lot of snow on the ground – the drifts were unbelievable for late May!
(Katie is a whopping 6 feet tall!)
Had a relaxing sit-down dinner with Katie and one of the older students – and it finally felt like I wasn’t moving at 75 mph. Had me some buffalo – there’s lots to come by around here!
(It felt wrong not to have one shot of Devils Tower…)
You write well! "There’s so much Nothing that the Nothing becomes Something."
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