You Are Nowhere (Flaming Gorge Post)

Last night, we stayed in a place without cell service, so no blog.  That's a pretty good story, but more about that later.

Be careful what you wish for, I was bored with the corn, but then we got absolutely nothing instead. 

The one tree in the state!

Cows

Traffic was heavy

We stopped in the town of Sidney, Nebraska for gas and lunch.  The first gas station we drove into had no diesel, but this was the logo.  "You Are Nowhere" became the de facto motto of the day as we drove through wide expanses of nothing, and the canyons with no cell service.

Windfarms

MOUNTAINS!

 In the scenic turn out point we stopped in (in Wyoming), I learned these were the Sherman Mountains, which were created through weathering and erosion above the Laramie Range.

The other attraction was this tree growing out of the rock.  It has fascinated visitors since the laying of the tracks for the Union Pacific Railroad.  It is a slightly stunted limber pine (Pinus flexilis).  the tree's age is unknown, but it grows out of a crack in a Precambrian era pink Sherman granite which formed one to four billion years ago.

At some point after this and working on my biology, I fell asleep.  When I woke up, we were in Rock Springs and planned to stay at the KOA there, but a rodeo was in town, and the campground was full. As the title of this post points out, we were nowhere and had there were no other campgrounds nearby, and it was getting late and we were all tired.  However, we kept on trucking to Flaming Gorge, which is a reservoir and the area around it is protected as a national recreation area.  It was far, almost another 100 miles out.  It dropped us into a canyon without service strong enough to use phone data, so we were nowhere and you were without a blog post this morning.  As we drove into the canyon the sun was setting.  

Once we had pulled in, the last bits of color were draining from the pale sky.  Timber and I went exploring, and she was a riot, running around and chasing bunnies with me attached!  

I will update on the rest of today's activities tomorrow, as it is late after our trip to pick up Mom at the airport in Salt Lake.  She got in safely, and we are all excited to have her with us for the rest of the trip!

Ciao!

Amy