Independence Rock

One of the most important things that you have to do when you go visit your best friend is, of course, go spend an entire day together with no kiddo's and go shopping and that is just what we did!! We drove up to Casper and dreamed and drooled over things we wanted and "needed". Whitney was stronger than I was to the temptations.
On our way up there, its about and 1 1/2 hr drive, we stopped at the Independence Rock Historical/rest area. The weather was perfect!-no snow yet!
Independence Rock is a place where numerous pioneers that were heading out west stopped and carved their names and dates into the rock. A lot of them have succumbed to erosion but some of them are still legible-it was so cool!

Best Friends!!

We are not the only ones that enjoy the big rock but we enjoyed it for other reasons; the snakes I'm sure like the heat. This was one of many sheddings that we found in one of the crevices-one big snake!

Yeah-it was about that long.

Very sunny-I was getting quite warm!

Click on the picture and it should get bigger so that you read it but its some historical info. about the place.

The rock from a distance.

And from an even farther distance.

Here are some of the names and dates that are still fairly legible-there were hundreds of them, especially on top.

Wilson 1930

Pathfinder is a name of a ranch that is still running today.

Obviosly, some people have continued to add their names and dates to the rock.

I think this one was one of the oldest ones on there. July 4, 1850

This appeared to be a whole family or something-the date was May 28,1895

Anyhow, it was quite cool and definitly a highlight to my week in Wyoming!

Does it make you wonder if any of these people are your relatives?