Monday, May 27 The
Long and Winding Road
After Sandy’s great breakfast burritos, we headed out for a
tour of Cody and then on to the Bear Tooth Mountains for a day of
sightseeing. Since Paul and Sandy both
grew up here, they know all the people, history and interesting stories about
the area and made great tour guides. Saw
some beautiful homes, the kids’ schools, the school where Sandy works and
highlights like the new hospital, Buffalo
Bill Museum, the Rodeo grounds, the Irma Hotel and more.
We took the Chief Joseph Scenic Byway out of Cody and it
lived up to its name, with beautiful red rock.
After a wet few weeks, everything was green and the hills looked like
they were covered in velvet. We
connected to the Beartooth Highway and climbed and wound by beautiful cliffs,
canyons, mountains and streams, stopping often for photo ops. We skirted rainy weather, but the clouds
obscured the tops of the snowy Bear Tooth peaks. We saw antelope, deer, an elk and a coyote.
Paul took us to a small town near Bear Tooth Pass called
Cooke City that had an old (established 1886)“general store” with many original
furnishings (and good chocolates!) There was snow on the high mountains and a
few flurries even swirled around us in Cooke City.
Had a cookout for dinner, Greg and Paul and Parker played
horseshoes, then we did the obligatory group photo and enjoyed a few rounds of
Golf again.
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