Wyoming Vacations, Wyoming Vacation Reviews, Tourism Guide

I'm sitting in a motel room in Evanston, Wyoming. The buffalo heads that greet motel patrons are a bit on the creepy side, but I'm happy to be here. It's 11:15 P.M. Mountain time. I'm utterly exhausted. It's been a loooong day on the road. I'm ready to take a hot shower and climb under the sheets. We had some misadventures today... for example, leaving the keys in the ignition and accidentally locking the door in a desolate town in Wyoming. That was an experience... But the town really...

We packed up our camp and headed to the Tower.  Devils Tower is volcanic in nature, the theory is that hundreds of thousands of years ago, magma welled up inside a soft mountain, and over the eons the mountain eroded away, leaving the hardened tower we see today.   We stopped at the visitor center first, then we walked the trail around the mountain, and up it as high as we could get without technical climbing permits. Tyler clambered up the rocks like a billy goat!  We wat...

Hanging with my good pal Dave O' during Labor Day weekend.

Now on to a National Park Service Site, Fort Laramie is a few more miles down the road.  All three of these sites are right along the Platte River.  This one looks like a lot more from a distance.  You can see some ruins of prior buildings and then a couple that are still standing, with roofs.    At the entry a Ranger will take you entry fee and give you a brochure with site map and historic facts.  This is a pretty large “fort”, with lots of empty space ...