What's Douglas, Wyoming known for?

Your trivia question of the day!



Douglas, Wyoming is known as the Jackolope Capitol of the World. Who knew?

But let me back up and explain how we got here.

After our very quick stop at Chamberlain, SD, we continued west through South Dakota and into Wyoming. We passed south of both the Badlands and the Black Hills. Although we could see them in the distance, we didn't get close enough to do any up close gawking. Nonetheless, the landscape we passed over was gorgeous.



The weather all day long today was pretty bumpy, so I decided to take some motion sickness medicine to try to pre-empt any problems. Unfortunately, even though I only took one quarter of one of those teeny pills, the medicine caused me to be excessively sleepy. I didn't exactly expand my navigation skills today.

At any rate, we came to Douglas after another two and half hours in the plane from Chamberlain. Although the weather broadcast said that there was little to no wind, by the time we landed, it was really whipping. Tim made a beautiful landing in the challenging conditions. We got out to stretch our legs and eat some lunch. Tim took a minute to re-evaluate our flight planning before getting back in the plane, only to find out that the airport we were planning to fly into is closed.

While that might not have been a problem a couple states farther east, out here there aren't that many other airports to choose from. So we evaluated a couple different options, chose the best, and started back out to the plane. At which point we found that the wind had picked up even further. As we were standing there deciding what to do, Tim's hat flew off. It was pretty clear that we wouldn't be flying any further today.

Which brings us back to Douglas, Wyoming. We borrowed a courtesy car from the airfield, booked a room with Priceline, and looked for a likely adventure to fill our suddenly free afternoon. We drove a few miles down the road to Ayres Natural Bridge Park, took the camera out, and enjoyed a beautiful afternoon.

This is the courtesy car that we borrowed. A fine automobile.



This is the Natural Bridge.


And these are the red cliffs that surround the park.


You can see more of the pictures from the day here.

Unfortunately, we didn't make it nearly as far as we would have liked today, and we have at least nine more hours of flying left before we get home. So we'll plan to be back in the air at sunrise tomorrow and make it as far as we can get. We'll let you know where we end up.



Surely it's not actually dangerous if it's in quotes.