We then arrived in Thermopolis and, once again, we soaked in the Hot Mineral Springs in town and had lunch there before leaving at around 2 PM. We stopped at the Chamber of Commerce office in town on the way out and picked up, among other things, information on a place called Legend Rock. The procedure is to take a key and permit - available at the Chamber office - to the site which is about 30 miles north of town. After you enter through the locked gate, you can walk the path in front of the cliff that contains the nearly 300 petroglyphs made by indians over the last several thousand years. It is amazing to try and visualize these tribes from thousands of years ago, creating these unusual pictures which tell a story that only they could understand. Following are pictures of the cliff and several of the petroglyphs:
This cliff was a wall of rock on one side of a valley that was probably the village for these indians over the years. They probably carved these petroglyphs during the years they lived in this valley. Below is a picture - taken from on top of this cliff - of part of this valley which had a creek flowing through the entire length:
We dropped the key in the drop box outside the gate and left. The remaining part of the trip home was mostly uneventful, except for some pronghorn antelope that crossed the highway in front of us just a few miles south of Cody. We caught these shots of them as they ran down to join the rest of their herd:
We arrived home at around 5:30 PM, unloaded everything from the Jeep, rested a little, and then took a little walk downtown to get an ice cream cone at our favorite cafe. Sheesh! It closed at 7 PM and it was about 7:15 when we arrived there. So, we came home, got in the Jeep, and drove to the DQ at the other end of town and finished our 3 day trip with a Sundae and a Blizzard. It was a very enjoyable trip, and one that couldn't have been much better - even with the first day rain...
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