Collins and Marilyn are in Ellensburg, Washington, today meeting some friends they knew from Collins' service days. Dave and Mazie got home a week ago Monday, on the 13th, and are busy getting the Silver Streak they drove this summer ready to sell. They are having a hard time adjusting to the Arizona heat, even in Sierra Vista, and Jeff called last night and told us not to come home yet because the heat had not broken, so I guess we'll stay away a while longer. We got our second chip in the front windshield on Monday, coming out of the Tetons. This one is on Joe's side (the other one is on my side), so we hope they don't spider out before we get home.
We went back down to the hot pools last night about 7:30 for our final soothing soak. The middle pool was quite a bit warmer since they had just refilled it, but it felt pretty good. This morning, we broke camp and set out for the Flaming Gorge National Forest down on the Wyoming/Utah border. The wind through the Wind River Canyon wasn't as bad today as it was when we drove in, but we hit pretty strong winds later on when we were driving through the high desert of Wyoming. I got better pictures of the Boysen Reservoir and Dam today.
We went back through Riverton, then on to Lander, Farson and Green River, driving through Wyoming's high desert. It looks a lot like the area around St. Johns, Arizona, with lots of sage brush. There were some sand and rock formations, and we saw several antelope along this route, a couple of herds of 12 and 20, then singles and doubles.
The town of Green River had some rock formations and this is where the Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area starts. There's a lot of history about this area, including the fact that dinosaurs roamed here and John Wesley Powell began his 1869 expedition here.
We stopped at the Flaming Gorge Visitor Center and got some information about campgrounds (many had already closed for the season) and some maps. We had a little trouble getting turned around here because the exit was blocked off with construction. We ended up having to unhook the car to get turned around. As we turned off the highway onto the road to the campground, we saw a few more antelope, and when we drove back to the campsite, there were several antelope roaming around the campground.
I'm a little behind in my posting, since today is Saturday, Sept. 25, but we are finally at a campground with Wifi, so I'll try to catch up.
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