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Well we finished in the Buffalo Bill Museum and then hit the road through the town out of Cody Wyoming.
The Thermopolis Cafe....
You might be wondering what this photo of a floor is all about so let me explain. After we were sitting at a table once our pizza was served I tried to get up to refill my drink. My shoe caught on the leg of the table and I made an ungraceful splat falling face first on the floor.
Well that was special so I had to memorialize the moment. ;-) The fall didn't injury me thank goodness and the woman at the next table came over to help me up while Hubs kept eating his pizza slice.
Here was our digs for the night.
And we had time to hit the hot tub and the indoor pool. The hot tub wasn't working.
And notice that the pool water isn't level with the pool sides.....or rather the pool had settled and the water was level. Crazy.
The next morning we drove back into "town", passing this huge solar farm.
And a hillside that had recently burned in a wildfire.
A little motel with a large statue of an elk and one of those archways made out of antlers again.
The Thermopolis Hot Springs Chamber of Commerce & Visitors Center.
We turned down by the Visitors Center and saw this wigwam sign directly us to the free Hot Spring. Here's Hubs sitting on a bench in the hot spring.
Here's me giving the "ok" sign in the spring. It smelled of sulfur but man, did it feel good on your old creaky body!
This is the women's changing room with lockers to store your street clothes. I guess crime is pretty low here as there were no locks on the doors. And there was a shower room to rinse off in so you didn't stink of sulfur afterwards.
There were also two hotels nearby that had free hot spring pools for their guests to use(no time limit)but they were out of our price range for this trip. The public pool hot spring was fine.
There were roads around this area and we'd drive over to where the "buffalo roamed" and as soon as we'd get near, they'd head off elsewhere.
Then the Alpha buffalo headed down to the watering hole.....
And the whole herd followed suit.......
Look at that cute "Ginger Dog" on the far right in this shot. That's the term for a juvenile buffalo as they are ginger colored and resemble the size of a large dog rather than a bison.
There's the Alpha male with his female harem cooling off in the water. He kept eyeing me.
And the whole herd followed suit.......
You'll notice the small rickety wooden rustic fencing surrounding where the buffalo roam. If that big male wanted to kill me, it wouldn't take much and I am sure he can run faster than I can.
A dinosaur replica
Where the hot spring sprung up and the mineral/calcium deposits that make formations.
And then, just like that we waved farewell to Thermopolis, Wyoming, heading Eastward to the next adventure on the journey.
Love Wyoming! Cindy in the South
ReplyDeleteWe've used the resort's hot springs in Thermopolis -- didn't realize there was a free one! (darn) The buffalo were probably mildly interested...but not much more than that. We're too small to care much about, unless we get too close (especially to the calves). Thanks for the mental vacation...I needed it today, with a blizzard moving into southern Colorado.
ReplyDeleteOkay I laughed at your fall and Dan keeps eating his pizza, I love Thermopolis we went there all the time when we lived in Wyoming.
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