The Amazing Adventures of a Zoobroker and a Sentiographer
We had no side trips today, except for a little celebration we'll post separately. So, this is a small collection of photos that can be taken from Route 80. I gotta say, I had no idea that Wyoming had such diverse terrain, and a humongous canyon (that we did not visit - we would have missed our steaks tonight!)
So, without further ado... photos after the break:
We got a late start and stopped shortly after the border with Wyoming in a town called Evanston. Every man in the Wendy's was wearing camouflage. I suspect that the incidence of camouflage-wearing and the incidence of gun ownership is highly correlated, and I immediately wondered, do we really want our dumbest states and our most armed states to be one and the same? Well, it turns out, my prejudices were way off. Wyoming not only has one of the highest high school graduation rates in the country, but also some of the highest mean SAT scores and is in the top third in average IQ -- way higher than California on New York. Oops, maybe there's something we're missing.
Anyway, to sum up, people in Wyoming have horrible fashion sense.
Yes, this is a camouflage tuxedo vest and elastic tie.
Covered a lot of ground, caught a lot of pixels (and some film, too!) Here is a small gallery of today's photos:
Montana
Yosemite (west side)
Sign right as you enter Idaho from Montana on Route 20.
A 23-photo pano I stitched looking to the right of the sign above:
Idaho, lonely and open.
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We stumbled into the small town of Newcastle, Wyoming, hoping it wouldn't match it's Geordie namesake ... thankfully it was just a cute little town with a particularly awesome little diner (you can just make out Donna's in the first picture).
So we were pretty pleased when our redhead (#4) waitress dropped these delicious burgers in front of us.
And apparently the words out: The folks below came all the way from Isreal to eat at Dotty's!!! Not really, they're on a long honeymoon roadtrip. Guys, don't you know you take the road trip BEFORE marriage to make sure you can stand each other? Anyway, that's Asaf and (I'm sorry, I can't remember his wife's name!). They'll be dropping by San Francisco around Halloween.
But the most memorable thing? The back of Asaf's shirt:
Sure enough, this is made by two Spanish felons who started printing up t-shirts in Jail. We think the name was Puta Madre ... but I can't find a canonical source it on the web. Asaf, help us out with some information!
