The Traveling Shih Tzu's: Time to head East and Home

We have been in Cody almost three weeks and we are hitting the road. We have decided to swing down to Salt Lake City for a few days and then hit the Pony Express Trail back to St. Joe, Mo. I have always been interested in the Pony Express and they have a museum in St. Joe. Salt Lake is a beautiful place and we went to the see the Salt Flats and the Mormon Tabernacle. The Tabernacle is beautiful and it is a spiritual just to see it. Salt Lake was a very nice city but it was hot! One hundred and ten degrees and we had one of the three air conditioner go out. We went to a service center however they did not have the part that we needed. The company that made our coach (Monaco) shipped us a brand new Air Conditioner and the had it installed for us. We had to spend a week in Salt Lake and then we were on our way to St. Joe.

Salt Lake Flag

Salt Lake

Buffalo at the State Park

Union Pacific Station

Mormon Tabernacle

Molly waiting for a treat

Linda catching a Trolley

Organ

Wonderful and Beautiful

Keyboard for the Organ

Well, We have arrived in St. Joe and found a nice campground. We are all settled in and someone has already come over and invited us to a party. I am telling you, this is the way to retire. We are going to the museum and Jesse James home.

The Pony Express only lasted for two years, 1860-1861, during that time, they rode over 650,000 miles, only lost one rider to Indians, and failed to deliver the mail once. They rode from St. Joe, Mo. to Sacramento, Ca and back. One way distance of 2000 miles. Young, skinny, wiry boys were hired as young as eleven years old.

The trail was nearly 2000 miles with 160 relay stations. Each horse would go from 9 to 15 miles and each rider would ride from 75 to 100 miles per trip.

Talk about tough kids!!!!

Bill Cody(Buffalo Bill) was one of the riders.