In Wyoming

Leaving Nebraska we passed the site of Massacre Canyon just west of McCook.  Interesting place with a large monument.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_Canyon

Leaving McCook was made difficult because our cousin's wonderful dog - Greta - jumped into the back of the pickup and really wanted to take a trip.  I just couldn't figure out how to tell my cousin that I had taken his dog!

Poor Greta was so let down when I had to drag her from the truck bed.

Crossing into Wyoming we stayed in Laramie which turned out to be a very nice small university town.  Good food - lots of trails in the Medicine Bow National Forest.  We stayed two nights but the weather was stormy with hail, wind and all.  On the way here we passed another massacre site.  http://www.historynet.com/sand-creek-massacre   This is a harder story to read.

Meadows crossed on the trail

Nice wildflowers including the above hair bells 

On the way to McCook we couldn't find anywhere to stay because of a ball tournament in the area.  So a lady at Ft. Morgan called ahead to Sterling and found a place with one room left so we headed that way.  As we approached so did a big black storm cloud.  We didn't really like the look of this place would not have stayed here but everything was booked and the tornado sirens were blaring as we arrived in the small parking lot.  The lady behind the desk said to ignore the sirens, nothing is going to happen - never has.  I wish I had her optimism.  We hustled our things into the room and stayed alert - mostly standing outside the room, visiting with the other residents, until the storm had passed.  Turned out the room was spotless - best bed we had in a motel up until then and a huge TV with movie channels -- All Good.  Just didn't look so good from outside and filled up with worker's huge pickup trucks that night but almost all were gone by 6 the next morning.