A 200-mile day trip in Wyoming

 While in Cody, Wyoming, we decided to take a short day trip along the Chief Joseph Byway. Little did we know that it would turn out to be so spectacular and LONG! But well worth it.

Here's the location in Wyoming and the route we took.

As you can see, this route is located in the way NW part of Wyoming and borders Yellowstone Park.

You can see the Start and Finish point in the lower right in Cody.

The start of the Chief Joseph Byway starts innocently enough then...

...here's what we found.  Oh, and we did this in our Ram 1500, NOT the motorhome.

This is only a part of the view from the top before heading down.

Cooke City. Old, old mining town. A long way from civilization. Look at those steep mountains in the background!

What is a WOOKA?

We saw a number of cars stopped along the side of the road and instantly that something was up ahead.
We have never seen a Grizzly Bear before, and now here's two!

It's as if he's saying, "What are you lookin' at?"

Look at the snow levels still in June.

Kim took some fabulous photos !

Now, for some scenic views. Again, these are all Kim's photos, most were taken while we're driving !

This is a great shot!

As is this one.

This valley along the Beartooth Highway was formed by glacial action.

This is the barrier fence at the bottom to catch any rockslides from the photo below.

You can see the slide from the top that occurs over and over again and the barrier at the road below.

This is Heart Mountain along the 75-mile trip back home after leaving the mountains. It was formed millions of years ago by a landslide from the surrounding mountains! It's over 8,000 ft tall. The geology is mind-boggling.

Anyway, you can see why we included so many photos. Kim and I ended up with over 500 photos. 

A spectacular day-long 200-mile trip in NW Wyoming. If you're ever in the area, be sure to take this journey.

steve/kim/katie

Katie is feeling shy.

Trip out west 2022

 Instead of posting individual blog entries for EVERYONE of our stops...of which we've done 40 so far, it might be better to just post one photo per site with a caption. Let's see how this works for you.

Looking west towards Green Bay from northern Wisconsin

Dam and Locks on the Mississippi River. These open and close to let water flow down river.

Great Lewis and Clarke and Seaman (their Newfoundland Dog) outside of  Sioux City, Iowa. Terrific musem.

Typical road in...North Dakota, Montana, South Dakota...take your pick.

Custer's Last Stand gravesite in Montana. I put this off for years every time we passed near it but this year, I decided to visit. A tragic site but interesting historically.

Wonderful sunset in northwest Montana

Harvesting wheat in Washington. These fields cover central/eastern Washington...very dusty when they harvest!

We took a hike here amongst the lava rocks in central Washington. We were the only people within miles!

One of our luxurious resort RV sites in Utah!

Goblins State Park in Utah. Miles of these formations. If you look really closely, you can see Kim down there.

...and here she is !

Some fabulous Mexican food in Colorado.

Mole tamales....yummmm

Stonehenge in Texas? Yes.

And we even drove to Great Britain ! Not.

Beautiful gardens in Fort Worth, Texas

Of course, BBQ is the best in Texas. Look at all that scrumptious food!

...and some Louisiana food. Gumbo, Po-Boys and meat pies

Typical Acadian/Cajun home in Louisiana. No gators this time.

Crawfish Etoufee and fried chicken. Louisiana

Red beans, sausage and rice. Louisiana

One of the local Louisiana restaurants.

We had longhorn steers in the field next to our RV park in Louisiana.

Katie wanted to have her own kayak.

Our backyard in Montana for two weeks.

This map, by geologist O.C. Harper in 1924, is one of the most significant pieces of geological evaluations ever done in the United States showing the vast area of West Texas that shows oil fields. They are still pumping oil out of these today.

Sometimes we would put Katie in a doggy day care place. You can see here way at the top in the corner where she'll stay for hours. She's kind of shy that way.

These wild horses like to block the road in Montana when they see cars coming. "Look, here comes a car...quick...back in the road!"

Momma and baby that showed up almost daily in our campground in Montana

They had a stream that I could not resist sitting in and looking at the colorful rocks.

Hope you liked all these photos. Of course, there are hundreds but these are just a small sampling of our trip these past 4 months. Great trip.

steve/kim/katie