Gillette, WY 58degrees heading for 83 today with 30% chance of thunderstorms (Weather Channel prediction). We are driving to Devils Tower Monument to observe the climbers and not get hit by lightning. Featured in the movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" I am hoping for a bit of a spiritual experience as we observe the monument. It is the first national monument - ever - designated by Teddy Roosevelt in 1906. Should be interesting.
After reading an information board about Big Horn Sheep in Wyoming (at Sheridan, at the base of the Big Horn Mts.) - they were wiped out and are being re-introduced - we turned around to see a man hunkered down behind my car taking a close up photo of my license plate. It's a Crater Lake one and looks pretty on my blue car. The photo was either a tourist thing or I had been a very bad driver. Turns out they were French tourists and he was finding the variety of license plates "very American" and taking photos. He's right, we do have very good looking license plates and European plates are just those big numbers. We stood and chatted, he interpreting for his wife, me speaking slowly and clearly as his English was all right but not fluent and finally got around to Grand Teton Park - south of Yellowstone. They were heading to Yellowstone for a first time visit and brought up the Grand Tetons. The French find it amusing because Grand Teton in French means Big Tits and they like to find out if we know what it means. We do. And now "au revoir". dw
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