Cody Wyoming

Monday morning found us packing up headed to Cody, Wyoming, a town just outside the East gate to Yellowstone.  (A clarification about Yellowstone, despite the lack of beautiful scenery, we were glad we stopped in there.  If we had it to do over again, we would not have allocated as many days in that area.)

By this time we had put on almost 4500 miles, so Lyn took the Yukon and camper to a the tire shop for new trailer tires (they were scary bad), oil change, tire rotation, and a new battery.  A weak battery had created the need for us to have our battery jumped 3 times...  Note to Lyn - "Listen to wife when she suggests taking jumper cables along".  Jolene and the kids spent the morning exploring the shops of downtown Cody; what a cool town with many Western shops... our purchases included cowboy hats and shirts, truly the western lifestyle was impacting our interests.

Our plans for Cody included going to the "Cody Rodeo Stampede".  Cody has an amateur rodeo every night of the summer, but over the 4th of July week they bring in the Professional boys of rodeo, we had an incredible fun time.  Setting the stage for the rodeo, we went to the Cody Cowboy Company for a "cowboy buffet" and a Western music show.  The Western show included both a champion fiddle player and a guitar player.  What fun, I'd recommend this for anyone visiting Cody and wanting to soak in the western fun....

Cody will go down as one of the highlights of our trip, a fun western town who strive to enable tourists to catch a glimpse of the western lifestyle.  Makes you want to say "Yee Hawww".

The Triple C Cowboys were our entertainment...

Our own 'bull riders'.

The clown and his "pony-ac" car.