After setting up, we had a great meal of french toast and eggs. The hubby worked on the computer setting up some caches and I set up the rest of the trailer for our two day stay. The next day, we started out early to make our way around Devils Tower. There are four Earth Caches there and we managed to pick them all up! After this, we headed to Sundance Wyoming to hunt the caches there. Sundance is an interesting place. The residential areas aren't exactly square and we had to go around the block a lot to get to where we needed to go. For a small community, their public areas, parks buildings are well kept and clean. We hiked around the lake area to locate a cache up by the golf course and made our way back to the city. Driving there, we saw a beautiful little church so I hollered at my hubby to stop so I could get out and take photo's of the church and the flowers. It was just precious!
After we finished with Sundance, we headed to Gillette to do more caches there. While we were getting a cache near Fire Station 1, we were privileged to see a beautiful double rainbow which I was able to capture. We picked up some of the older caches that we were not able to get on the last trip. It was pretty hot this day so we got tuckered out quickly and were in need of the water we had back in the car. We made our way out of town a ways and on to a dirt road which had some caches. Soon after starting this trail, we realized that all of the caches were the same with no challenge so we stopped after we got five of them. The hubby was very discouraged as he had spent a lot of time putting them in to our GPS units. I profusely apologized to him stating that I wasn't able to bear doing a boring trail. By this time, we were quite tired and we made our way back to the KOA for the night.
I had decided to take a quick shower before bed and walked over to the restrooms where the showers were. Upon entering, I caught sight of a huge black bug with long greasy feelers. He appeared ready to pounce at any moment on a weary traveler. As I walked to the shower area, I saw several of the same bug family in each shower. They were way to huge to wash down the drain and looked as if they would be willing to pick a monstrous fight if I tried to move them out of the shower. Deciding at that moment to forgo the shower and take a top and tail bath in the trailer was one of the clearest decisions of the day. I just went back to the trailer and announced to my hubby that he was blessed to get an in-house show. He didn't complain! As I got ready for bed after my spit bath, we had a horrendous thunder and lightening show. It was like God was giving us his own 4th of July celebration. I'd like to see pyrotechnics beat this fireworks show. The only thing I think He went a little overboard on was the wind that accompanied it! It about blew us and our tent trailer over. To top it all off, one of the big bug's had hitchhiked on one of my bags and was setting up house in the trailer. I let out a scream and my hubby jumped up to be my hero again. He evicted the freeloader out of the trailer minus a feeler. After this excitement I finally made it into bed and fell fast asleep.
The next morning, we tore down our home away from home and headed back to Billings Montana. We made a stop at a Geocache site near the open pit coal mine in an abandoned housing area. After getting this cache, we stopped at the mine for some photos. I asked if we could take Hwy 14/16 back to Sheridan as I had never been that way. It was a really beautiful drive and I was blessed to visit the booming town of Ucross! The sign says they have a total of 25 people in the town. We were in and out in a matter of seconds! I stopped to take a few photos of one of the grain bins and their new little park that is being finished up and took off again headed toward Sheridan. After arriving in Sheridan, my hubby took over driving and we made our way back to Billings. It was a fun weekend for us.
Our next trip is planned later this summer and you can be assured that I will blog all about it. For now, I am back at work and busy as a little bee. I do so hope God richly blesses you all the rest of this year. As always, Cheers! Freedancer.
