A Day Around Cody

Wednesday 6/18/2014

Cody, WY

Today we decided to go to Walmart and get more jeans!  I was not thinking clearly I guess but did not expect it to be this cold EVERYWHERE.  I had also promised Todd we would get him some real cowboy boots so we headed for downtown Cody to where the locals shop and found some great boots for both kids.  Cost a bundle but they are good boots; pretty sure they will outgrow them before they tear up.  Of course a western shirt just jumped into the bag too.  He is a real sharp looking kid.  Zoey found cute purple cowgirl boots.  Returning to the hotel Don and Todd headed out to do the laundry while Zoey and I put things away and I work on planning our destination tomorrow.  Went to the Old Trail Town and Museum after lunch and wouldn’t you know it Zoey fell asleep before we got there so Todd and I went in.  From the outside it is just a lot of log cabins arranged on both sides of a dirt area with boardwalks and hitching rails.  But as you walk along to each cabin and read the plaque posted you find these cabins have been dismantled and rebuilt here.  Cabins that were used by the first homesteaders; Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the first rancher to bring cattle to this basin and others.  There was a blacksmith shop, a saloon frequented by various outlaws such as the Hole in the Wall Gang.  The outlaw’s names didn’t mean much to Todd but looking at the cabins and the many stuffed animals and birds from the region were of great interest to him.  Tonight we pack and head out early tomorrow morning.  Hope to make it to Arco Idaho where we will find the Crater of the moon monument.