Medicine Bow, WY

If you remember the series The Virginian, this is a picture of the hotel from the series.  That's about all that there is in Medicine Bow, WY.

Cheyenne, WY

Downtown Cheyenne we visited the restored historic railroad depot and the state capital. 

 

Depot

Iron Horse

Wyoming State Capital

 

 Statue of Esther Hobart Morris in front of capital - woman instrumental in attaining Wyoming voting rights for women in 1869

Dome looking up from inside the capital lobby

One of the beautiful staircases

 

Steel cross section from the World Trade Center in the capital

Record size buffalo in the capital

 

House chambers

Senate Chambers

 

Butch Cassidy Celebration - Wyoming Territorial Prison State Historic Site

Butch Cassidy Celebration - June 8

 

The annual Butch Cassidy Celebration is a fun, family day with many activities. 

 

 A group of Bolivian Dancers performed at the celebration.  They also had some Bolivian food which was delicious.  Picture of Bill and a Bolivian Dancer.

A cute miniature donkey wagon

 

A highlight of the day is the "Prison Escape" where two "convicts escape" and a kid posse is formed to bring the escapees back to the prison.  Bill was one of the prison guards.

 

Two 16 year old kids as the criminals

 

Kid Posse being sworn in at the church

Guards (Bill on left) putting ball and chain on the criminals to take them back to prison



 

Lawman giving the kids instructions

Prison Wagon to take the escapees back to prison

 

 

 



Wyoming Territorial Prison State Historic Site-Laramie

When we were volunteers at this historic site two summers ago we took a lot of pictures of the site and the surrounding area.  They are still on our blog in the 2011 section. 

  

Beautiful sunset from our RV site.

 

This is the view of the Old Homestead area at the historic site that we see from our RV spot. 

We've seen animals and birds from our RV site:

Mule Deer

 

 Chipmunk

Northern Flicker

 

 and a squirrel "stealing" bird seed

Bill is also portraying a guard this time - he has been given the name "Texas Slim"

 

Hutton Lakes National Wildlife Refuge

Hutton Lakes NWR is near Laramie.  The water level on the lakes was low.  Check out the interesting clouds.

some type of wading bird

yellow-headed blackbird

Air Force Academy-Colorado

Overview of the Air Force Academy - Athletic Complex in the foreground, Chapel and Cadet area in the background. 

 

 

 Pictures on the trail from the Visitors Center to the Chapel

 



Protestant Chapel - pictures can not due it justice

 

Partial view of the Cadet area

 

At noon the Cadets gathered in front of their residence halls to march to the dining hall. Also, the band played and the "colors" were presented.  It was an impressive site.

 

 

 We fortunate to be able to see visit some of the Cadet areas not open to the public because we had a connection with one of the professors.  One of those areas was the dining hall.  Approximatley 4000 Cadets are served family style by an "army of servers", eat and exit in 25 minutes.  The dining hall is about 2 acres in size. 

 

Snow in Monument, CO

Snow fell in Monument, CO (I 25 north of Colorado Springs) on May 1 which is unusual. We enjoyed watching it snow while we were in our warm "home on wheels".

May 1 snow pictures at Colorado Heights RV Resort

In the evening and overnight it snowed more