We missed the welcome sign (kinda hard to get pictures at a "reasonable and prudent" speed). I'm sure there was one though.

Reasonable and prudent? You decide.

Some scenery

We stopped for dinner at a place called Crazy Jane's Family Eatery...

which has a great view of the Crazy Mountains. Here is the story from the menu at Crazy Jane's:

The sharp and ruggen Crazy Mountains are an isolated, geologically young range which form a jagged upthrust of rock more than 11,000 feet high. The Crazy Mountains consist of igneous intrusions that were emplased in the youngest sedimentart rocks in the region, the Fort Union formation. Fifty million years of erosion have since stripped away the several thousand feet of relatively soft sedimentart rocks that originally enclosed the intrusions, leaving the more resistant igneous rocks as mountains.

There are several version of the origin of the name for these beautiful mountains. One version is that they were haunted by a crazy Indian woman. Another involves a white woman who went insane while traveling across the plains with a wagon train of emigrants and was found near these mountains. A more common version tells the story of the John and Jane Morgan family, who joined a wagon train in Independence, Missouri, and headed up the Oregon Trail. After seperated from the train, they were attacked by Blackfoot Indians. John Morgan was severely wounded and carried off by the Indians. His two sons and daughter were killed. Berserk with grief and fury Jane Morgan charged amonng the Indians with her axe and killed fdfour of them. A young Rocky Mountain trapper named John Johnson came upon the scene at the end of the day. He stayed nearby for three days, long enough to bury the dead and build a small cabin of cut logs. Jane Morgan stayed by the cabin he had build for her, which is to say she stayed by her graves, refusing and even fighting all efforts to move her to settlements. The name Crazy Woman Mountains was in time shortened to Crazy Mountains. Our Eatery and Pub is named after Jane.

John Johnson later became a legend as Liver-Eating Johnson after Crow Indians killed his pregnant wife. For many years thereafter he killed Crow Indians then ate their livers, raw. The saga of Liver-Eating Johnson was the basis for the 1974 movie Jeremiah Johnson starring Robert Redford.

Here is one of us being silly while drinking a milk shake.

Then drove off into the sunset to find a place to sleep for the night.