Photos: From the Top of the Bighorns to Spearfish, South Dakota

This view is from the Bighorn Mountains of north-central Wyoming all the way to the Black Hills of South Dakota, some 240 miles to the east. The Bighorns rise over 13,000 feet, while the highest point in the Black Hills is just 7,242 feet.  

Mule deer

Longhorns

Longhorns

Mule deer

Magpies

Horses & goats

Sheep

Mule deer

Canada geese and mule deer

Horses & sheep

We stayed the night in Spearfish, South Dakota, at the Travelodge. We were in a ground-level room, and there must’ve been a pack of little kids (or angry old folks) in the room directly above us; they kept stomping on the floor.

(Larry got the room – I always prefer the highest floor I can get, even if there’s no elevator. We need the exercise, after all, especially after sit-ting in the car all day!) We hoped the brats (or the cranky old people) went to bed before we did, and didn’t get up in the morning until after we did!

(They did, and they didn’t. We slept fine.)