Wyoming / South Dakota 2017: The End

January 7th, 2018.

As always, time goes by.  My last post was on November 6th, two months ago.   2018 is now here and it's time to officially close this blog. Yes, time moves us forward, but whenever there is a desire to take a look back at this fabulous trip, it's possible to return to this blog.   The Blog Archives on the right show you that the blog was started on April 16th, 2017 (Day 0).  You can either start here at the beginning, which explains the blog,  https://uiadinwyoming.blogspot.fr/2017/04/day-0-introduction.html  or go to any other day you choose. Just click on the little arrows next to the months and then choose the days.

The first part, Day 0 to Day 61, is our preparation before we left on June 16th.  The posts which follow Day 61 show the photos and comments of the students who took the trip.  Such good memories.

To those students: thank you for being a part of the adventure.

To students who followed the blog regularly: thank you for showing interest and for being an armchair traveller with us.

To those in other Uiad classes (or outside of Uiad) who discover this blog, may it be of interest and perhaps help for those who are planning a trip to Wyoming/South Dakota themselves (and to you I say "Bon Voyage"!)

My best,
Jane
PS And, if you are curious about our other trips, you can also visit these older blogs:

Louisiana May 2015  
http://uiadinlouisiana.blogspot.fr
http://uiadinlouisiana.blogspot.fr/2015/03/1-d-61-introduction.html

The Far West  May 2010
http://uiadfarwest1.blogspot.fr/2013/
http://uiadfarwest1.blogspot.fr/2010/01/1-d-130-happy-new-year-2010.html

Information, quizzes, photos and comments AND SINGING from our trip to London and Oxford in April 2009: 
http://uiadinlondon.blogspot.fr/2009/06/58-uiad-tea-rooms.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taxIG57ZGSc 
http://uiadinlondon.blogspot.fr/2009/09/
http://uiadinlondon.blogspot.fr/2009/04/day-3-april-8th-2009-our-day-at-oxford.html
http://uiadinlondon.blogspot.fr/2009/03/uiad-english-students-leaving-for.html

And, for a few photos of our trip to Scotland in September 2008:
http://uiadinscotland.blogspot.fr/2009/10/

CITIES TOO

With her photos, Colette takes us to cities we visited during our trip.

The landscapes were marvellous, but cities were also interesting; here some photos of Rapid City & Deadwood in

South Dakota:

Rapid City:  Presidents on every corner!

FDR

Teddy Roosevelt

Rapid City downtown

Wild Bill Hickok

A store in Deadwood

Saint John's Episcopal Church (historic place number 121)

St John's church is located in Jackson Hole. 

(It's a very pretty little church in wood.)

Rapid City (Art Déco)

Devils' Tower

We also saw many interesting museums, especially the one with old carriages. 

( I love the old "bibliobus"!)  And had a very typical dinner in Cheyenne 

(a restaurant not only for tourists).

And the last day we visited  Salt Lake City,  a beautiful & rich city but where some poor people sleep outside !

Ranchers at Bunkhouse Bar

Bookmobile at Cheyenne Museum of the West

Salt Lake City Capitol Building

Salt Lake City, inside the Capitol Building

Thank you Colette.
My best,
Jane

THANK YOU NICOLE G. FOR ONE MORE FLOWER PHOTO

Thank you Nicole.   Lucky me!

My best,
Jane

JUST ONE MORE TIME, FLOWERS

I have never received so many flowers!!!  I'll do this just one more time, thanking Christine for her contribution, then we'll move on to another part of our trip.  And just in case you didn't listen to Barbra Streisand in yesterday's flower post, here's the song again for you:
You Don't Bring Me Flowers  (but my students certainly did!) -->
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55RX1yhh5Oc

My best,
Jane

SPECIAL DAY...SO MANY FLOWERS!

Lucky me! So many flowers!  Beautiful flowers.  Thank you to my dear students for sending them to me to share with everyone.

I can't help but think of two songs I know:  One sung by Doris Day, "Send Me No Flowers".  Can you understand why she doesn't want flowers?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W17i3pbu7eM

And a sad song by Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond: "You Don't Bring Me Flowers Anymore" but I'll share that song with you at the end of this post.   
For now,  MORE Wyoming flowers, from Marc C.  Lovely.  
Thank you Marc.

A sad song, but Barbra Streisand has such a beautiful voice.

You Don't Bring Me Flowers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55RX1yhh5Oc  SO BEAUTIFUL!  Please listen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-34p-o7D6EQ

My best,

Jane

_______________________

--I can't help but... Je ne peux pas m'empêcher de...

https://www.linguee.fr/anglais-francais/traduction/can't+help+but.html

LIKE MAGIC: MORE FLOWERS

I wrote in the preceding post "I hope other students will send me more flowers", then, like magic, at that very moment, Robert's flowers popped into my email box!
Extraordinary...the photos and the students' participation!
Thank you Robert for theses photos, taken at Granite Pass.

Granite Pass (el. 9,033 feet (2,753 m)) is a mountain pass (un col)  in the Bighorn Mountains in Wyoming traversed by U.S. Route 14, on the border between Big Horn  and Sheridan counties.***

We were so unlucky...but so lucky--to be there.

STUDENTS, CAN YOU REMEMBER THIS DAY?

So beautiful.

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***Big Horn Mountains, Wyoming, just over the Montana state line:

The U.S. Route 14, near the end of this red line, is where we were crossing the northern part of Wyoming.  It starts in Chicago and ends at Yellowstone National Park:

Maybe more flowers tomorrow??

Thank you again Philippe and Robert.

My best,

Jane

FLOWERS TOO!

The last two weeks in June were a perfect time to go to Wyoming.  We were so lucky to have such nice weather and the scenery was a mixture of snowcapped Rocky Mountains,  amazing shapes and colours in The Badlands and at the same time Spring green and colourful flowers.  
I'm so happy when my students share their photos with everyone.
Here are Philippe's pictures of flowers: 

 The few that I have:

 The Great Plains 

So lovely.

I hope that other students will send me more.  And perhaps my botany students can tell us the names of these flowers.

Thank you Philippe.
My best,
Jane