In bear country, you find garbage cans with special latches to keep bears out.

In no-bear country, you find garbage cans with lock to keep humans out.

We drove from Bozeman, MT to Casper, WY today.  That’s about 420 miles, all on the interstate.  I-90 to I-25 if you are keeping score at home.  We made great time leaving at 11am and getting in well before 6pm including all stops.  Even on its third road trip, the car continues to impress.   It eats miles like nothing else.  We averaged a, um, substantial rate of speed for the whole day and still got just over 24 MPG.

Not much else to say.  Montana is freaking huge.  We saw the geography change as we got closer to Wyoming.  We crossed over and actually overlapped our outbound route from last year.  One of the most impressive days last year was a trip through Bighorn National Forest in Wyoming.  Today we got to see that area from another angle.  Plus as we’ve noted before, things are very green this year whereas they were brown and dried out last year.

Tomorrow we head for Boulder, CO.  It will be a shorter day; we might have some time to hang out there.  And then onto Santa Fe!