Travel

Grandfather Cuts Loose the Ponies (also known as the Wild Horse Monument) commemorates in sculpture the area wild horses. We stopped at a scenic view point along the Columbia River to photograph the sculpture with my anemic 300mm telephoto lens.

The Wallace Depot Museum was suggested by Roadtrippers.com. We got a guided tour of this interesting little museum. We hung around Wallace for lunch and a quick stop at another museum.

Sometimes a small town has a big museum; sometimes it has a huge museum with 24 historic buildings over 35 acres. Such is the Big Horn County Historical Museum in Hardin, Montana, 15 miles from the site of the Battle…

Another small town museum, this one in Kaycee, Wyoming: Hoofprints of the Past Museum. The Hole in the Wall gang hung out nearby along with quite a few other outlaws. And we learned about the Johnson County War.

Douglas, Wyoming is known for two exciting things: its railroad museum and the world’s largest jackalope. (City tag line: “We know Jack.”)

Only one stop today, Great Sand Dunes National Park. We’ve visited other dunes including White Sands National Park (while it was still a National Monument). And west of Yuma, Arizona are sand dunes along the Mexican border.

Fifth and final sightseeing stop of the day, The Raton Museum, in Raton, New Mexico. I always find something interesting in these small town museums. The town was not big but the museum was.

My trusty app for finding sites to see along the way failed me on this one. But driving through a corner of New Mexico we saw the sign for the Capulin Volcano National Monument. We took the slight detour to drive to the top of the volcano.

The Second Amendment to the US Constitution provides the right to keep and bear arms. Why a Second Amendment Cowboy? Texas! Texans need their guns.

The first thing I think about when I hear “Cadillac Ranch” is not “a public art installation and sculpture in Amarillo, Texas,” as Wikipedia puts it. By “art” they mean burying ten Cadillacs nose first in a Texas field. Over…