Here's a giant-size Jackalope atop the hill greeting folks along the highway to Douglas (Converse County), Wyoming which is the "Home of the Jackalope".
This giant-size Dinosaur is also greeting the highway travelers to town. There is a Dinosaur Museum in town also.
This statute we encountered as we were travelling along the highway. It is a tribute to the men who work/are working in the oil fields.
Just one of the drilling rigs and equipment complexes that we saw along the highway.
I bet it would be quite interesting to get a tour through one of these operations. Maybe sometime in the future??
As the sign says, this is Independence Rock State Historic Site. It has also been called "The Great Register of the Desert". It is a 193-foot-high granite boulder with a base that covers more than 27 acres. Members of an expedition led by Robert Stuart, credited with the discovery of the Oregon Trail, first visited the rock in 1812. Since then more than 5,000 explorers, adventurers, missionaries and soldiers have carved their names on it. It also houses a very welcome rest area for travelers along the route.
This day one of the local organizations set up an exhibit at the rest area with coffee, juice and water for travelers, expecially welcoming the many motorcyclists that were traveling this road heading to Sturgis, South Dakota for the upcoming week-long events.
The "Rock". There is a path down to the rock where you can get up close, walk around the entire rock, climb on it, etc. We've been here before (a few years ago) so we decided to foregoing doing that again.
One of the exhibits at the rest area site.
A cover wagon on display. Sure does not look comfortable (especially since it was a very HOT day and it didn't have any AC).
Something else to read as you walk around and rest from travelling on the highway.
No one needs to warn me (Jo) about these things. I'm always on the lookout for them when we are out and about in areas like this.
More exhibits.
OK, so here we are in the middle of nowhere (actually I believe the town where Independence Rock is near is called Alcova), and we run into a portable stop light with a line of traffic.
Once we finally got going and continued down towards Alcova, low and behold is another portable stop light for the traffic coming the other way.
Why you ask (as we did). Here's the answer. They had a major paving project going on and it really tied up the traffic (even out here in the middle of nowhere).
Some of the bikers and other traffic stopped for the light.
Another drilling rig popping up along the road.
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