Keystone, SD

1365 miles from home.

We have been as far away from Aiken as we will be on this trip and also the farthest north, both of which occurred today. Now we start to work our way south. Up until this afternoon it has been cloudy or rainy or cold or some combination of all three, but around midday blue sky started to show up, so now we are just down to cold, but just at night the days should be pleasant (about like early February for Aiken.)

Speeding north on I-25 in Wyoming yesterday there was a large quantity of black animals off to the west, at first we thought they were cows, but then realized they were buffalo. At the posted speed limit of 70 MPH they were gone from view before my synapses could register that maybe I should take a picture.

Speeding east on Wyoming 24 this morning they was a large quantity of small black animals not far off the road to our right, at first we thought they were goats, but then realized that they were wild turkeys. At the posted speed limit of 65 MPH they were gone from view before my synapses, etc.

The deer up here are fearless. They stand along the side of the road grazing and pretty much ignore us. That ignoring thing works both ways though, as there are quite a lot of dead ones along the road too.

So far I am 0 for 2 when asking for Coke in a restaurant, they have had Pepsi, which I have politely declined.

Devils Tower is awesome. On the way up the rain was sporadic and occasionally the clouds would thin out enough that we would almost need sunglasses, but mostly the skies were gray. I told Donna that I thought it would be cool if I could get a shot of the thing with the top half shrouded in clouds. She didn’t want that at all, she was hoping for a nice blue sky. Turned out we both got our wish.

Three geocaches today.