Day 16 Plus - Sweetwater Respite

Given the long milage planned for the next day, and after 2 50 plus mile days with a healthy dose of WY wind, I decided to take a day off at our bucolic Sweetwater Oasis. After traveling slong the Mormon, Oregon, and California trails, I muse that I am appeciating the Sweetwater much like those migrants of long ago.

We also stopped by the Mormon Handcart disaster memorial, where 13 members of the Willy Company perished in a blizzard after starting too late across the great plains pulling hand carts. A faith filled Mormon elder docent added much color (and a little prothelytizing)  to our visit, as did the 150 Mormon youth i. Period gaeb on a pilgrimage to the sacred place. They pull handcart for several days, with limited supplies to relive what those faithful immigrants experienced during that fateful migration.

 
We took a day trip to the Lander area, going through Atlantic City again. There are number of interesting buildings there as well a neighborly political squabble we got to experience via signs and posters (attached below). The first is typical political yard sign, on the left side of the road to boot.
The next 2 are more, errr,  custom signs, on the right side of the road, and political spectrum.
After getting lunch, food and bike parts in Lander, we drove up to Sinks Canyon State Park. Here the Popo Agie river disappears into the mountain side and reappears as a large spring a quarter mile down canyon and 2 hours later, with more water than went in. A very nice canyon overall, should head back there and camp and explore more someday.