More Wyoming

What a great time I had with Rodger in Wyoming. The staff and students at Northwest College treated us like VIPs. Rodger and I were in Powell, Wyoming to be the keynote speakers at the Wyoming Leadership Conference. We gave 3 speeches to about 100 attendees. We also participated in a lot of the other conference activities. The conference began on Thursday and ended on Saturday.

At the college’s attending the conference were all community colleges. We learned that there is only on 4 year University in the state of Wyoming. Even though Northwest is called a “community college,” but it has the fell of any residential campus. The college has dorms and resident halls, a campus spread out over a couple of blocks and their own rodeo team!

The conference site is close to the entrance of Yellowstone Park. The entrance to the park and being in the park are totally different. Yellowstone Park is the first National Park and covers more area than the state of Delaware and Rhode Island combined. Many of the roads in the park close during the winter or when it snows because most of the park sits at over 7,000 feet. There was some bad weather in the park the day before we arrived and the amount of time needed to see some of the sites didn’t give us enough time to see the park. We did get close enough in the city of Cody to see a lot of the mountains near the park! Wow is all I can say.

Cody, which is named after Wild Bill Cody, was a fun tourist town to stop into. The City has about 8,000 people and is about an hour from the Eastern entrance to Yellowstone. It’s is also the closest airport to the park. Cody is known as the Rodeo Capital of the world. During the summer, there is a rodeo every night of the week. We also got a chance to check out the Wild Bill Cody dam. It’s amazing to look over the edge of the dam (300 feet down). It was trying hard not to drop Rodgers camera or fall over the edge because it was very windy.

If you’re ever in Cody, be sure to stop by the Will Bill Cody museum. The place is huge and has a ton of information on the West, Buffalo hunting, American Indians and weapons of the period.

Also be sure to stop by CB’s Family Sports Bar and Grill. The food is great and the owner is very friendly. The owner is from Florida and wanted to open something up that was a little “different.” I recommend the Chicken Pesto that I had. Lots of flavor and very light.

CB’s Family Sports Bar and Grill
1134 13th Street
Cody, WY 82414

That’s all for now. I’m off to Pennsylvania and Ohio this week, so I will blog more about those trips later this week! For all of my friends in Ohio, I’ll see you soon!