Devils Tower

May 17 - Driving day, we drove through the rest of Nevada and then through Utah, passing by the Great Salt Lake. But it was dark, so no pictures of the lake. We arrived in Wyoming and spent the night at a Walmart.

May 18 - Headed through most of Wyoming, destination Devil's Tower. We arrived at the Devils Tower KOA Campground long after dark. We found our spot and while closing up the curtains on the RV we realized you could just make out the Tower in front of us, a massive dark shape in the night sky. We didn't know before this trip that Devil's Tower was the first national monument in America.

May 19 - Opening the curtains in the morning we could see just how close we were to the tower, it was right out the front window, very cool. 

This was another wonderful campground, with so much to do from miniature golf and movies, to

group bonfires, a dog park, and playgrounds. Across the street a trading post full of gifts, souvenirs, ice cream, snacks, and coffee.

Cozy played outside until lunch. I made some sandwiches and we headed out to get closer to the Tower and take some pictures. In the park surrounding the tower is a huge area with a prairie dog town and a LOT of prairie dogs. We couldn't help but stop and watch them for a while (there are a lot of pictures on the next page). 

Eventually, we left the prairie dogs and headed around to the other side of Devil's Tower. We took many great pictures, but didn't meet the aliens unfortunately. :) 

 

Spent some time at the Devil's Tower Trading Post getting souvenirs and taking more pictures. I am glad I agreed with Jonathan's plans to go here, it was more for him, but I enjoyed it as well. We stayed another night and got a lot of extra rest.

 

May 20 - Jonathan fell the morning we left, he fell off the step of the camper. Fellow campers came right over to help and we got him up quickly. We found people are so kind just everywhere. Jonathan was able to laugh at himself and was not injured because he landed in the grass. 

So Devil's Tower is in the northwest corner of Wyoming and only a few hours from Mount Rushmore, which was next up. 

We headed out and before we got more than a mile from the campground we saw Bison and Longhorn Steere grazing in the pasture land. We pulled over to take pictures. It was so wonderful, indeed I love animals, all of God's creatures. We should respect them, whether they be for food or in the wild we are the caretakers of Earth and its life. I firmly believe this and take this from my reading of the Bible.

 Let's check out the animals at Devil's Tower. Click here to continue our adventure.

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