May 10th- Drive through Wyoming & South Dakota

Today we drove safely from Provo, Utah to Keystone, South Dakota. We drove a total of 673.2 miles today. The drive through Wyoming was beautiful. 

The sky is bigger in Wyoming. Even though most of Wyoming was flat, there are different rock formations, prairies, and little canyons. 

Wyoming is ranked 50th out of the states for population. Now we understand why, there are more cows than people. We didn't see many people at all while we drove through. There is a town called Lost Springs that has a recorded population of 1. 

We did stop in Rawlins, Wyoming for some gas. On the map it looked like a bigger town, but we think this sign says it all about Rawlins:

As we crossed over to South Dakota the scenery changed a little bit. We actually saw a school bus sign which means people actually live there. The western part of South Dakota has a lot of evergreen trees and huge rock formations. It was no wonder to us why Mount Rushmore is in South Dakota. The eastern part of South Dakota was really flat and had few trees and rocks.

We almost hit 5 deer in South Dakota. We were looking around at the rocks and then all of the sudden we see 5 deer standing in the road. I saw them in time not to hit them, but it was a little scary, and fun. We also drove past a farm that had buffalo instead of cows. What do they do with the buffalo?

This was our hotel in Keystone. Washington Inn & Suites. The town of Keystone is very, very small. I would not like to be there during busy season, which is end of May to early September. One good thing about it being small is that every thing is within walking distance. We walked the downtown in about 5 minutes, that's how small it is. In case you stay here, be careful, they don't have shampoo or conditioner. 

Like I said on another post, the drive was great since we listened to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn on CD. I really recommend books on cd for any long trip!