Mystery Road Trip, Day 4

Today we drove 434 miles: from Denver, CO to Dubois, WY with stops along the way in Laramie, Rawlins, and Fort Washakie, WY. We ate supper at the Nostalgia Bistro in Dubois and had some tasty items there.

We tried to start our day with a tour of the United States Mint location in Denver. Unfortunately, even arriving there before the tour ticket office opened wasn't early enough: all available tour tickets were already gone for the entire day by the time we arrived.

Beautiful scenery in this state--especially along the route that we took today.

In Laramie, we explored the campus of the University of Wyoming. The grounds are inviting, and the buildings are beautiful. We saw a memorial to Matthew Shepard and posed for photos by a huge copper statue of a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

One of the roadside attractions in Rawlins is a 1955 Cadillac with two front ends!

Mountains, plains, big blue sky . . . it was a beautiful drive.

Outside of Fort Washakie is the "Sacajawea" Cemetery, which has a statue in memory of Sacagawea as well as a tombstone with her name (well, the "Sacajawea" spelling, at least) on it, flanked by headstones for Bazil ("son of Sacajawea") and Baptiste Charbonneau ("papoose of the Lewis and Clark expedition" and "son of Sacajawea").

But is this really where Sacagawea is buried? Read this!