Ten Sleeps WY

There’s a little breeze on the water this morning and a few fluffy white clouds.  We get organised without too much dilly-dallying and are on the road before 10am.  We are heading east towards South Dakota.

We stop at Walmart, just before Cody to replenish, it’s been a whole week so we did quite well without a top up in between, but our list is rather extensive today.

Cody is a real cowboy town - known as the Rodeo Capital of the West.  A full rodeo is staged every night over summer.  At the Cody Firearms Experience you can shoot the guns which won the West and outside the famous Irma Hotel the Cody Gunfighters perform nightly, re-enacting the gunfights of the old wild west as gunslingers Buffalo Bill, Wild Bill Hickok, Wyatt Earp – keeping the Wild West alive!

 

Wyoming we have learned is the least inhabited of all the states - we have noticed there is not much traffic! It supplies most of the US's coal and today we also see oil derricks operating, beef ranches and just a little agriculture.  WY was also the first State to give women with the vote and is the home of Pepsi, who would have thought!  

Sample of Wyoming landscape

We get to Ten Sleeps (Pop 260) and as we remember this place well from our bike trip thought we would stay here tonight and reminisce.  The RV Park is also a sort of antique museum and I find Kim a scooter - perhaps not quite what he had in mind!

A scooter for Kim!

Ten Sleeps, written in Indian as two hands and a teepee!

Crazy Woman Cafe and Ice Cream Parlour

It’s hot, 39C but we manage to walk the block into town and patronise the local Ice Cream Parlour called Crazy Woman Café.  As we are walking back a couple of bikes rock up, and one is a bright red Polaris Slingshot with all the gear, including leather panniers.  Looks very comfy.  Kim is googling where to buy one as I write - oh dear!