Yesterday, we crossed the Continental Divide in Rocky Mountain National Park; we're back to where all streams and rivers flow into the Atlantic Ocean.
Today, we said good-bye to all of those mountains and mesas, and drove out of the Rockies and into the Great Plains.
We took an unplanned detour into Cheyenne Wyoming and serendipitously came upon the old Union Pacific train station and a chili festival.
Cheyenne's got some great old architecture; the train station neighborhood appears to be on its way to more restoration:
From there eastward, it was nothing but plains and wide-open views. We discovered a previously unknown (to us) factoid along the way: Sidney, Nebraska (population 6200+)is the world-wide headquarters for Cabella's.
It also turns out that the old Oregon Trail paralleled what is now I-80 in parts of Nebraska - how fortuitous for those pioneers to have had a Cabella's along the way! :-)
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