Rapid City to Grey Bull, WY


Goodbye South Dakota, hello Wyoming. We cross our first big mountain range.


Our lovely Nina sleeps in for us (mercifully) so that Amy can shower and get packed up before she wakes. We have cleaned up the trailer and reorganized all of our stuff, but now we need to move all of it back into the car and trailer - requiring putting the tent up and down all over again. Good practice for our first night of camping tonight though! Grandma and Bev return from radiation treatments shortly after we get everything buttoned up and ready to go. We’re on the road by 11, not exacly the bright and early start we were hoping for. However, we’re only aiming to get to Grey Bull, in the hopes we’ll have enough time for a pleasant evening in our campground. We made reservations at a KOA so we'll have an easy in and out, and some play equipment for Nina.

The drive around the Black Hills is pretty. We see a LOT of bikers on their way to the Sturgis Rally which started today. The road is starting to get pretty boring when we finally get to the Big Horns and get to drive up in to them. I really enjoyed this stretch of road. Lots of curving, winding parts with good views, and lots of rocks. Someone decided to label the rock units here (thank you!) with their names and ages, which I remember from Field Camp. The pass was pretty windy and cold, we passed some lovely campgrounds that we probably should have stayed at, but we'll be closer to Yellowstone at Grey Bull.

We ended up not finding any place that looked good for dinner, so we just set up our trailer and had dinner at the campground. I played with Nina in the sandbox and swing set while waiting for dinner. She was in no mood to wait at the table. We heard an owl hooting outside while settling in for bed. It was really peaceful and enjoyable. The only problem is that the beds are pretty small for two. We ended up sleeping one to each side instead.

Posted: Wed - August 1, 2007 at 11:17 AM          

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