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Home at last.

There really isn’t more to say than that. Wyoming is big and interestingly pretty for this time of year 🙂

I’ll write something funnier later to wrap up this whole trip but tonight, I’m just happy to be home.

Enjoy the pictures!

Here is the back of the car. We packed it pretty full. Not a lot of room left over 🙂

And a view of the car from the front seat. The blank space on the left is where I stash the camera and laptop 🙂

Weather in Wyoming

We’ve been racing this storm front for a couple days now 🙂

Last one from Wyoming.

Ryan says Hi and apologizes for the “white man” nature of his fire yesterday.

Thanks for all the comments! It makes me happy to know that people are watching and to some degree enjoying me on my little web soapbox 🙂

We finished our second to last day of travel. From Great Falls, MT to Sheridan, WY. First day of partial Internet access along the way. The sun was out. And we drove and drove and drove. 🙂

Through the mountains we tried to run the up-down-up-down-left-right-left-right-B-A-Start combo but we couldn’t find the A or B buttons on the car.

Checked out Custer’s Last Stand in Montana. But we got there too late in the day to get inside and check the area out. We thought about hopping the fence but then that could lead to an involuntary reenactment of Custer’s Last Stand. Not such a good idea…

And then we found Wyoming…

Interestingly enough this is not my first encounter with Wyoming. We have had dealings before.

What strikes me the most about today is that it is the day before I get home. Such a weird thought. But I have an apartment that will need to be cleaned. Food to buy. Bills to pay. Video games to play.

Over the last few days, that’s not what home has meant to me. These last few days it’s been a tent, a car, or someone’s house that I get to crash at. Home has been about blogging things along the road. Capturing pictures. Hunting for radio stations. Making sure the driver doesn’t fall asleep. That’s what home has been for me.

Go figure.

Here are the pictures from today!

As soon as my EVDO card started working again… I was online baby! Checking e-mail. Posting Blogs. Enjoying comments. Here you can see our tent at the cool KOA campground. What am I doing? Checking e-mail. 🙂

Lewis and Clark are pretty big in Montana. Kinda like the Beatles or Christopher Walkin are big here in Colorado. So Ryan and I decided to honor them in the best fashion we could think of. Imitation!!!

Montana’s landscapes could very easily be picked up and placed in Colorado and I don’t think many people would notice.

Last night of camping. Pretty typical of our setup. Except sometimes it’s gravel or dirt. The last two nights it has been grass. 🙂

Typical Dinner setup. The crates have food and cooking gear. We have Sausage Gumbo on to cook. Ryan’s dozing. I’m playing around with the camera. As usual. (It’s easier than making myself useful. Shhh. Don’t tell!)

Gotta get that dog into the picture somehow. 🙂

The last few postings have been back to back. If you didn’t realize this, you might be missing out on some of the pictures from the trip. Just FYI

-Jon

Got an early start and we split from Penbina River Provincial Park. (Probably closed) We seem to have this knack for finding campgrounds that are very popular during the height of the summer but are almost abandoned when we arrive in May. I’m pretty sure we were the only people camping in that campground last night.

It’s hard to explain how eerie it is when you are the only ones camping in a campground. Ryan and I kept our voices hushed. You could hear all these falling seed pods in the silence of the evening.

In spite of our spooky surroundings we managed to sleep an extra hour this morning before hitting the road.

The trip has this flavor of drive drive drive, and occasionally stop for a picture if it’s near the gas station or lunch. So a lot of the pictures are shot from the car. I’ll roll down the window, lean way out and hope I don’t swallow a bug.

Having said that, the places we are stopping have some incredible picture opportunities. Check out some of my favorites from below.

I’ve also started to get a little home sick for America. It’s not the big differences that are getting to me. it’s these odd little things that keep coming up. I’m working on some photos to explain, I’ll post them later 🙂

We crossed into Montana at 6:30! Home is close(r) now. Well… Ryan says Montana is a big huge honkin state that will take days to cross. I’m skeptical. I mean days? Come on!

We’ve managed to find radio stations on the dial to listen to. Ryan’s been a good sport about the dead iPod. I think both of us were planning on it to provide the bulk of our entertainment. Dead iPod means that we’re improvising now. Since I have evdo coverage one of my thoughts is to use streaming Internet Radio sites like Pandora to keep us entertained.

Great Falls will be our camp for tonight. Yay for KOA! Odd as it sounds, Great Falls is the first place I’ve felt like I’m back in civilization. Not that I couldn’t find civilization didn’t exist in Canada (far from it) but now I have non roaming cell coverage and the evdo card is starting to work consistently. So I plan to soak up a little civilization, check the web, browse my e-mail, do a little yoga and do some laundry before we strike out into the wilderness, aiming for Colorado.

Pictures are below!

Lunch on the go. I bought a little Canadian Husky from the fuel store. He was their mascot. I figured I should bring back a souviner or two from the trip 🙂

Planes on a stick. This was outside of the Hanton Lancaster Society Air Museum in Hanton, Alberta. Cool looking 🙂

The worlds longest and tallest trestle. Just a hair over 1 mile long and around 1000 feet high. And there is a train on the other end. So Ryan and I race down to check it out as it goes over our heads. There were these piles of train metal that had fallen off of various train cars over the years. If something had fallen while we were down there it would have broken an arm or a head. Lucky for us, we stood off to the side outside of the falling debris zone. It was soo neat to watch it go over head 🙂

Me getting artsy on the bridge.

Graffiti on the bridge

Welcome to Montana. Big sky country. No trees. 🙂

Jet on stick day I guess.

Spooky grain elevators we found along the way.

Portrait by the fire. Ryan’s on the left. I’m on the right. Go KOA 🙂

p.s. I swear, if I didn’t have my head screwed on. I just washed my chapstick and lens pen. The chapstick is ok. The Lens pen I’ll have to replace. It was almost time to do that anyways but couldn’t I have waited until I got home?

Oh well. No blood no foul right?