As I can't remember too much that is remarkable about Wyoming, I have copied the following extract from my diary.

Wyoming is very sparsely populated, the 5th largest state but the least populated (50th) - only 455,000 people. The towns are very far and few between, I took a photo of a town name board with only 3 inhabitants!

After leaving South Dakota we drove through Newcastle, Lusk and Orin. A very pretty drive through some really different countryside - almost desert with rocky outcrops. Later we went through some sandstone type mountains, also very pretty. Saw a tepee village between Lusk and Mule Creek, where we stopped for lunch.

We stopped at Independence Rock, an impressive large rock the size of a mountain where the Mormon pilgrims passed by, each person scratched their names into this rock.

We crossed the Great Continental Divide, the most strange mountains just rise up out of nowhere, all sand and red coloured sandstone. Also went through the Red desert, very flat for miles & miles. All in all a very different day for us. Temperature was 91o F.

Saw lots of buck - and strange white “sand” around some of the lakes. Travelled from Rawlins to Evanston (WY), again through really interesting countryside - most incredible mountains and scenery. Spent the night at a very noisy Flying J truck stop in Evanston.

We saw plenty of very long trains again, but still the record is 116 coaches.

We stopped one night at the Orin truck stop, where the staff were incredibly friendly and helpful - allowing me to send a number of faxes to South Africa.

That night we had a stunning sunset.

In 2008 we visited Yellowstone National Park - an absolutely fantastic trip. For details & photos:  Yellowstone National Park