The Long Highway Just Got a Little Shorter

This morning we left Cody, Wyoming with the intent to made it to Nebraska by nightfall. It was going to be a long drive, but we thought we had seen all to be seen in Wyoming and Nebraska is just farmland...right? 569 miles later we realized that we were not totally right.

The town of Thermopolis gave us gorgeous hot springs and rainbow terraces where the mineral water flows over rocks into a pool - a 127 degree pool! Then outside of Thermopolis was a sight even more breath-taking than the beaches in Oregon...the Wind River Canyon. It is hard to describe the majesty of the mountains and I don't think these pictures can do it justice.

I knew it was going to be hard to top this with anything in Nebraska; I was right, all the Corn Huskers state has offered so far are storm clouds (albeit amazing storm clouds) and grasslands. The storm cloud picture was taken by Mike from the car while I was driving...thanks Mike for sharing this one with me!

We lost an hour by crossing over into the Central Time Zone; so instead of stopping at an early 8pm like we had hoped, it is now after 9. We found a nice little Mom and Pop place to stay. Tomorrow the rest of Nebraska and into more farland in Iowa and we are not even going near Ottumwa...