Wyoming and Montana

Well, today we travelled from Rapid City, SD, to Bozeman, MT. Driving in Wyoming is like sailing, but on a sea of green, with the swells 3 to 6 miles long, and hundreds of feet deep. There is no shade in Wyoming - actually, we came upon a small town in a valley with a stream running through it, and there was a grove of trees. Other than that, not a bit of shade anywhere! We came up with a poem for Route 90 in Wyoming: Wyoming Exit/ Ain't no food/Ain't no gas/ Just keep on driving/ There's only grass./ In Rapid City we met a couple driving back to Indiana from Portland. The husband's reaction was, "The further we went through Montana, the larger they made it." These are very big states. Big, and after driving miles and miles of prairie, seeing the Rockies for the first time is spectacular. We did stop at one exit early on in Montana - to see Donna's Diner. Good coffee, and the piece of cherry pie I ordered could have lasted four days, if I wasn't into blowing a week's worth of calories. Finally, trip wise, we were tooling along through Gillette at nearly 80 mph, and passed on the left the biggest building complex I have ever seen. I think it was a coal crushing operation, because, on the right, was the biggest mine operation we have ever seen. The seam of coal was perhaps 50 feet high (but down in the ground) and must have been a mile long, with giant machinery working the seam. At 80 mph, we got no pics. One last comment - some have alerted us that they can't comment on the blog. This "frosts" me, as I think Google has limited (or we have, unwittingly) comments to those with Google+ or g-mail accounts instead of the open forum we enjoyed in the past. Sorry if we have had a hand in this exclusion.