Devils Tower

Well I'm having a dull weekend wrting my thesis and recovering from a cold, so I thought I'd tell you about last weekend. I've always thought it was appropriate that Wyoming's colours are brown and yellow, since those are the dominante coulours of the landscape. In an attempt to prove me wrong, Andy took me to northern Wyoming, where it's actually green and nice. We were camping in temperatures that would actually register on a thermometer, so it was a big improvement over Christmas in Utah. We relaxed and read books and ate yummy camp food with an excellent view of the badly punctuated but impressive Devils Tower. It's a volcanic plug, and looks like a tall narrow verion of the Giant's Causway. We did a little bit of walking, and played football and frisbee (Andy has found one I can throw; amazing). It was nice to just relax and not worry about my thesis for a few days.


Below: Images of Devils Tower


















Right: The tower reflected. Sorry, I have a thing for photos of reflected images














Left: Noisy, stupid and very cute.. Prarie dog allegedly guarding his colony while being completely oblivious to me creeping up on him. I got within a foot of hime before he visibly bottled it, screeched and dissapeared down his hole.




We came back via South Dakota and these funny big head rock things. Mount Rushmore I think. They are an impressive feat of engineering, but the novelty of looking at them wears off quickly. You can extend it by debatingwhich cartoon featured a character emerging from one of the giant rocky nostrils. Sadly, they aren't hollow so it's not that likely to happen. Anyway it's funny watching Americans trying to be patriotic and think of things to say other than 'wow'. They are impressive, but I think Lincoln looks quite a lot like Robocop. Maybe that's just me.

Left: Robolincoln is shunned by the other trolls

Below: Fear me, my nostrils could engulf you