Time lines

This trip has been all about moving back and forth across history.  It's impossible to keep it orderly or sequential, especially when you're standing on a single spot that was a) an ocean floor b) trod by dinosaurs c) trod by Native peoples d) crossed by horses, then wagons, e) crossed by the iron horse and telegraphs f) carved by roads and g) flown across by jets.

Doesn't time wear on everything, including travelers?  There's so much to see and do, but we took a double whammy with the time change, as 24 hours after we crossed into MST, we lost an hour to daylight savings!  Sun sets at 4:41!!!

And we're at exactly one week on the road, in SW South Dakota, and I think we're doing pretty well.  It's not like there's a real schedule to keep anyway, other than Sophia needs more sleep than me and time dedicated to school stuff.  She is journaling daily because she admits, we're seeing/doing so much that to miss one day is to forget something...I'll begrudgingly admit her technology is more convenient than mine - she can snap a photo on her phone and post it on her blog before my laptop is online.  So I just make her load/unload the truck with her spare time when we stop...

A few time-oriented photos...

 

The Niobrara River bed in Nebraska where wind and water erosion revealed numerous artifacts and fossils.  Can see into tomorrow also...

 

In the middle of the prairie, if one is struggling for road names, there's always the obvious ... this is an operational one-room school house.  We only saw three houses within ten miles!  From a bygone era...

 



 Kali's not one to waste time, but neither is Sophia...