Kim (a paleontologist from California), Penny, and I went down into Cody today and swiped a free shower and did laundry. But before the laundry part, we went to the Heart Mountain internment camp museum.
It's quite the experience, seeing the displays up and reading first-hand experiences and copied files from the Japanese Americans imprisoned there. My need for the Allegiance soundtrack increased a lot, and the reminder that my heritage as a Chinese descendant is close enough to my grandpa's emigration to the United States that, if history were to repeat itself, would land me in an internment camp.
While we were waiting for laundry to finish, we took some photos and samples from a geologic outcrop on the edge of Cody at this place called Colters Hell. The geyser area in Yellowstone is also called Colters Hell, but the one on the edge of Cody is the original one and has interesting views of angular unconformities (when the land tilts, then erodes, then has more deposited rock on top of it) and some active hot springs and sulfur staining. It's pretty awesome.
Then some really intense wind tore my tent's rainfly when we got back to camp. So I gotta go fix that.
Hope you all had a good Saturday!
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