Firearms Museum Cody, WY

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This past summer the boss and I needed to get away. Didn’t want to spend a fortune nor did we want to encounter huge crowds. We decided to visit Cody, WY. There’s lots to see and do in Cody and nearby.

One highlight was visiting the Museum in Cody. It’s 5 museums in 1. You get a 2 day admission. The firearms museum was one wing. The boss isn’t into guns but entertained a few hours going through the museum.

Everyone in Cody was very friendly as were all the tourists there. We definitely would visit again. I encourage everyone to make the trip. Beautiful scenery on the way there. Very little traffic too.

It was nice to leave a socialist country and to experience a taste of freedom as well.
 
The museum is nice but the Shoshone river west of the Buffalo Bill reservoir is a trout fishing dream. Being fairly close to east Yellowstone, keep a watchful eye for grizzlies. Last trip out there (Sept) got to see a mom and her 3 kids cross the river 200 yards above me. The kids were the size of our adult black bears 😲 I'm told they're partial to the choke cherries growing along the banks.
 
Before we moved we took a trip from WA to WI taking all back roads and state highways, first stop was Yellowstone, then Cody, stayed two days, the downstairs gun museum was incredible roll out racks and file drawers. We saw every inch of the place. We camped in one of the free sites west of Cody on the river. Then we took highway 14 from cody to Winona MN then north to Hayward WI then to Milwaukee for my 50 year class reunion. Then we headed south thru Whitewater WI to Galesburg IL and spent two days camped at the city campground beautiful campground on the lake with awesome oak trees. I spent both days at Simpsons Gunshop, they set me up with a space for my gear and I went through dozens of shotguns and combo guns and ended up buying five.

From there down through MO to Crater of Diamond's camping along the Black River in MO, another pretty campground. We dug for diamonds, no luck then to the Queen Wilhelmina State park then across OK to Woodward and stayed a Boiling Springs Springs SP, a coyote walked right through the campsite while we were having breakfast.

Then north to John Martin reservoir for a couple of nights and then into Pueblo where my wife grew up and our daughter lives. Then west over Monarch Pass and on into UT and spent the night in Green River and on to Tooele to see my nephew.

Then we had to take the interstate to Winnemucca then north and spent a couple days soaking in BLM hot springs halfway to Lakeview OR and then on back to WA. This country is just beautiful when you get off the interstates. Small town folks are friendlier. Most of our campsites are free or minimal in cost. When we travel we try and stay off the interstates
 
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