Five asleep in Ten Sleep

We roared out of Cody after devouring dinner.  I was hoping to go from buffalo burgers to Buffalo, WY  (I-90), but a storm slowed our progress.  We were treated to nice sightings of pronghorn and deer, and an unusually bright double rainbow.  We could see both sides, with the illusion of driving right through it.

The Leprechaun headed to the promised land.

The others fell asleep while Karen and I tried to cover some ground.  The two lane road was very dark and full of wildlife. We saw a friendly raccoon and a busy owl on the road.  While these were exciting to see, they were a bit unsettling for a tired driver. 

Looking for a place to stop and sleep, we rolled into Ten Sleep WY.   It was 11:00 and the town was completely deserted except for some late-night cowboy bars.  We decided to keep moving, as we were entering the Big Horn Mountain area.  Sure enough, we found a very adequate overlook vista on Ten Sleep Creek.  The road had very little traffic and provided a quiet place to stop. 

Etymology of Ten Sleep, WY:

 Ten Sleep was an American Indian rest stop, so called because it was 10 days travel, or “10 sleeps,” from Fort Laramie (southeast), Yellowstone National Park (west-northwest), and the Indian Agency on the Stillwater River in Montana (northwest). There are numerous archeological sites throughout the area, with frequent discoveries of artifacts such as arrowheads, pictographs and petroglyphs