Our night last night was not as bad as we had anticipated in this sketchy campground. Sounds bad but the oil worker staying next to us came home to his big coach only to blast Marty Robbins music. It actually sounded pretty good inside our Airstream. Then he shut it off at 9pm! Jett only needed out a few times during the night. Then the oil workers were as quiet as they could be departing for work this morning.
Then our drive through Wyoming today was so surprising. I guess we thought we would only see a whole lot more of nothing. But WOW!!! The landscape was amazing. The area between Shoshoni and Thermopolis was stunning.
The Windriver Canyon Scenic Byway presented us a beautiful surprise at every bend in the road. The spectacular rock walls rise vertically 2,500 feet from the canyon floor. What a gorgeous scenic drive. Along the way you pass the Boysen Dam. Travel through a number of short back to back tunnels. You can even see the tunnels for the Northern Santa Fe railroad line.
The river begins in the south as Wind River and borders the Wind River Indian Reservation there. Drive time on the byway is about 40 minutes. As the river progresses it eventually becomes Bighorn River at the Wedding of the Waters. It’s an unusual occurrence of a river changing names without a side tributary present.
Our day ended farther north back in Montana at Red Lodge. Now here is where it gets confusing. Tomorrow, Sunday, I will prep my tent, hammock camping gear and welding gack. Then Monday Jett to the vet and hopefully I can get set-up nearby in Absarokee in a hay field in my ‘hammock’ tent. I will be leaving Tim and Jett behind in Red Lodge with the Airstream over the course of the next week. My time in Absarokee will be spent with my Sisters on The Fly group. The event I’m attending is an all women’s welding clinic … the same one I attended here last year. No boys and not a good idea to have a sick dog dry camping in a tent. Fun ahead!!!
With our decision to take Jett to a vet Monday morning we hope we can find a solution. We thought she was getting better but she had a slight set back today. Lucky I ‘know a girl’ here in Red Lodge, Montana who is a vet. She and her husband own a veterinarian facility. They specialize in equestrian, large animals and also see dogs. Fingers crossed I can get an appointment first thing Monday morning.
No comments:
Post a Comment