Day 22

2004_0423Image0028.JPG An unusual sight, mountains to the east 2004_0423Image0030.JPG 2004_0423Image0032.JPG an interesting outcrop 2004_0423Image0034.JPG 2004_0423Image0035.JPG 2004_0423Image0040.JPG Elk mountain 2004_0423Image0041.JPG at Como Bluffs, famous dinosaur discovery place 2004_0423Image0041a.JPG The Virginian Hotel, Medicine Bow 2004_0423Image0042.JPG 2004_0423Image0047.JPG 2004_0423Image0048.JPG 2004_0423Image0053.JPG 2004_0423Image0055.JPG 2004_0423Image0056.JPG 2004_0423Image0057.JPG

Day 22
4/23/04
Laramie, WY to Medicine Bow, WY
60 miles

Weather was pretty good today, and I made great time to Medicine Bow.  The Virginian Hotel in Medicine Bow is a really neat hotel, built in 1911 in honor of Owen Wister's famous novel "The Virginian".  As you can see above, it is really neat inside.

Just south of Rock River I saw a pronghorn antelope, which is actually a type of goat.  They look sort of like a stocky version of a typical goat with a shaggy, light brown coat, a bright white underside and tail, and small deer antlers.  Anyway, it was running alongside the highway, sort of trapped because of the barbed wire fence from the adjacent ranch, and it kept about 100 yards ahead of me for quite a while.  Then, it doubled back and ran right past me at a distance of about 10 feet.  Unfortunately I couldn't get the camera out in time, but it was really cool.  Then, a few miles down the road, another one did the same thing.  Hopefully sometime on this trip I'll successfully get a picture of one.