May 26, 2013 Wind River Canyon, Thermopolis to Cody

Sunday, May 26, 2013     Cruisin’

Headed out through Wind River Canyon.  Gorgeous canyon walls and rumbling, tumbling water with occasional ranches, like this one.

Next we reached the town of Thermopolis.  Famous for their hot springs, this is a pretty little town with a very green central park dotted with blooming lilacs  – I miss those in Texas!  There was an unusual globular structure which we discovered used to be teepee shaped and is a vent for the hot springs.  The water and steam flows from the top and has built up quite a bit of mineral deposits.

 The springs themselves also put out a lot of this material, creating what looks like a frozen water falls.

Unfortunately the bath houses did not open till noon on Sunday so we missed a soak.  Instead we ran the generator for hot water,  and cleaned up in the Trek. We stopped at Mickey D’s for breakfast and wi-fi.  then headed to Cody, 84 miles north.

Arrived at Paul and Sandy’s about noon and had a nice reunion and re-met the kids, Parker and Skylar.  Their house is lovely and back yard has a great patio with fireplace and comfy furniture.  Paul gave us a tour of his sign shop, then Sandy fixed dinner in a can cooker ,(google Seth McGuinn’s can cooker) a large milk-can shaped cooker into which she layered potatoes, onions, cabbage, carrots, brauts and shrimp.  Yummy!  We taught them to play the card game, golf,  got caught up a bit with wi-fi enjoyed hot showers and slept well.