Day 6

 

Rock Springs Wyo. to Cheyenne Wyo.

 

 

After leaving Rock Springs this morning, our first stop was in Medicine Bow, Wyo.  We were able to drive 104 miles on the freeway as the Lincoln Highway runs directly under the interstate and at times to the right hand side.  That totally made up for the 170 miles on the dirt road the other day!

 

We then took the main road through downtown Rawlins, and as we stopped at a stop sign, we turned left and lo and behold there was an Antique Store. And Vaughn STOPPED. And we got OUT. And we went INSIDE! And this is the treasure I'm bringing home with me!

 

 

 

 

Then the road took us through the town of Sinclair.  As we passed by a park there were some children standing on the side of the road waving at all the cars go by. Of course we had to stop and visit them.  This was a good place to stop because there were wonderful things to take pictures of.

 

 

 

 

 

This sign tells about the Inn in the following picture

 

 



 

 

 

We then traveled on to Medicine Bow where we had lunch at the Historic Virginian Hotel.  This is where the TV show "The Virginian" was filmed.  There were many things to see, and a wonderful home across the street that was a museum. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This was a log home that they had a garage sale in

 

 

This was one of the rooms in the museum

 

 

 

After lunch and touring the town hotspots, we headed to our afternoon stops, The Ames Monument, which we found out that the Ames brothers were main people who financed getting the railroad coast to coast.  This monument was completed in 1882 at the cost of $65,000.00. 

 

 

 

 

Then we traveled to the Henry Joy monument.  He was the first Lincoln Highway Association President.

 

 Next we visited the Lincoln Monument which I might add is very impressive.

 

 

 

We were also honored to have the son of the man who designed this monument.  He talked to us and told the story of his dad, Robert Russin.

 

Then after checking in at our hotel, we went to the Historic Plains Hotel for dinner. And let me tell you it was the best dinner we have had on this tour.  We sat at linen covered tables, and was served by waiters.  And we ate on real glass plates!  All our other meals have been more of a picnic in the park type of meal. They were good, but this was fantastic.

 

After visiting for a while, we headed back to the hotel where Vaughn has gone to do laundry while I let you know where you went today.  Hope you had fun...we did.

 

Today we logged about 260 miles in about 10 hours.  Tomorrow is another early day, on the road by 7 am.  Sleep tight!