October 5 to 6 - Home, Home on the Range
Queue the song, “Home, Home on the Range” because I just could not get it out of my head since heading to Yellowstone National Park. Leaving Yellowstone I REALLY could not get it out of my head!! Where the deer and the antelope play for sure!
The drive from Yellowstone to Badlands National Park was filled with adventure and childhood nostalgia. Adventure? Another Snowy pass through Big Horn National Forest. Scary and beautiful. I was glad to be out and in Cody, Wyoming. Upon leaving the snowy high elevation I was reminded I was a crazy woman, see photo.
Ended up on the set of, “Little House on the Prairie” from about Buffalo, Wyoming all the way to Wisconsin. Vast prairies with deer, antelope (pronghorn) and when I made it to the Badlands, buffalo (bison).
Which where my next blog post will be from, Badlands National Park. Another national treasure! I’m in New York right now, so this is a bit dated, but plan to be here for a bit and I’ll have a chance to catch up. Stay tuned!
Just outside of Yellowstone National Park. As soon as I left the park the snow quickly left and was replaced with touches of Autumn, mountains, steams and lakes.
Buffalo Bill State Park and Reservoir
Beaches?!? I’ve lived my whole life by the ocean so inland beaches always amaze me. This is at Buffalo Bill State Park and Reservoir
It’s a stunning place, Buffalo Bill State Park and Reservoir.
This photo was taken just as I was coming out of a very snowy and steep pass on the way to Cody, Wyoming. No way I was going to stop for photos!!
Read the sign. Yes, about at this point the sign was perfectly correct. I totally laughed when I saw it and turned the car around for a photo. The pass was in Big Horn National Forest.
Saw this (house?) on the way out of the park. Things you see on the side of the road are pretty incredible. I could spend the rest of my life taking photos just from the side of the road.
Magpie at a gas station in Cody, Wyoming.
Pronghorn, antelope, whatever you’d like to call them. They were cute and plentiful. White butts!!
So, so, so many deer!!! Mule deer I think. This photo only shows part of this huge flock.
Show off them big bucks!! Cool horns dudes!
These next two photos were great. I assume the antelope with the horns is a male and he’s herding his little flock of females.
He’s doing a good job too keeping them perfectly in line! This was a small group. I saw herds as large as 20 to 30.
Baby pronghorn!!
Saw a long train in South Dakota pulling lots of coal Eastward. For some reason I didn’t consider coal is mined in other parts of the country outside of the typical areas such as Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. Looked it up and my goodness, it’s all over the nation!