My Wyoming Road Trip, May 2007

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Wyoming Native...

displaced because of employment requirements. I love Wyoming unconditionally because my roots are there. I'm content to visit as often as I can. They have terrific rodeos and county fairs in addition to the natural wonders of Yellowstone and Teton National Parks. The real charm though, as has been posted, is the rugged back-country where you can be very very alone except for the abundant wildlife.
 
I would realy like to spend a whole summer there. My wife and my job would never agree to that. I would not be allowed to stay and keep the wife.

Visited 15 years ago on a job at several medical offices and hospitals. Wish I could have just packed up and moved there or SD when I returned to TX.
 
I agree with Momybug

There ain't nuthin' in Wyoming but miles and miles of nuthin' but miles and miles.



Everthing in the state either sticks, stings, bites or kicks!!
 
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Travis,

I just transferred from California to Michigan. A friend of mine said my route looked more like an EKG since I went through OR, WA, OR again, ID, UT, AZ, NM, CO, NE, MN, WI and into the upper peninsula. 40 days of wandering and about 1000 digital pictures. If any of you (especially you guys in the military) get the chance to do this don't pass it up. I lived out of the back of my truck the whole time loved it!
 
When I first hired on to the old Double Diamond
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Sheesh, TallPine, do you know how old that song is? :eek: I oftentimes listened to The Starlite Ramblers sing it at Panama Red's in Ft. Collins CO.

The Double Diamond... up around Dubois, isn't it? Or it was, might have sold awhile ago.
 
You probably passed right by my house when you came down to Lander. Yeah, I like the views just fine. And the huntin aint too shabby either.
Tonight we're promised rain. But they look more like snow clouds to me.
 
Bearmgc: I was very impressed with Lander. I stopped into the local gun store across the street from the Lander Bar, where I had a huge tasty lunch. Went up the Sinks Canyon, all snowy on both sides. Walked down the trail to the sink hole. I was totally impressed with the town. I plan to weave Lander into my next book. (That was the point of the road trip, to scout locations.) But really, I lenjoyed every bit of WY that I saw, and I haven't even seen Jackson, the Grand Tetons, or Yellowstone yet!

Acolyte: It was my pleasure. I never imagined this thread would go 3 pages, mostly by justifiably proud Wyomingites.
 
Wyoming really is a fabulous place. I just want my family(parents) to keep thinking it's flat, bare, boring and dull. We live in the Platte River valley now and we love it. There's a little store in our town...best place in the world. It's got books, needlework and custom guns. I can't imagine any better place to raise my kids than this little town in thise wide open state.

Most of my aunts and uncles think that it MUSt be another country entirely and that you need a passport to come here. let's just keep them thinking that shall we?

heather
 
Wonderful Wyoming

Ah...Travis, your little journey through God's country really got my blood flowing. I grew up in Riverton, went to UofWyo, joined the Navy, met my wife, her mom threatened my life if I moved her to Wyoming. I've visited a few times since '89, every time it's harder to leave. I really enjoyed your write up, thanks. Next time you're up there plan on spending a week or so to take it all in.

I figure the folks we wouldn't want in WY don't frequent places like this. :rolleyes:
 
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I was very impressed with Lander. I stopped into the local gun store across the street from the Lander Bar, where I had a huge tasty lunch. Went up the Sinks Canyon, all snowy on both sides. Walked down the trail to the sink hole. I was totally impressed with the town. I plan to weave Lander into my next book.
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Lander impressed me, too, years back.
It also got woven into Molôn Labé! (The Bradfords lived nearby.)
There's just something about that town...

Regarding a Wyoming handgun, Mark didn't loan you one?
I'll have to razz him about that!

Boston

http://www.javelinpress.com (Boston's books)
http://www.freestatewyoming.org (FSW website)
http://www.fundamentalsoffreedom.com/fswforum/index.php (FSW forum open to all)
 
heck and I thought Wyoming was just Fireworks stores and cheap booze. :uhoh:

I do believe I will have a second look now. :cool:
 
Fella's;

The Diamond Ring was right across the road from the Buzzard Ranch, back when. I did summer work on the Buzzard when Ty Moore owned it. The Buzzard was 'bout 35 X 50 miles & the Diamond Ring was bigger! Cruisin' C.Y. Avenue in my new 69 Camaro, just outta the Army & full of p!ss & vinegar. Runnin' Buffalo, Worland, Greybull, Ranchester, Buffalo on the CB900F with friends who also had good bikes & knew how to ride 'em. Trucked the bikes up from Casper, ran the Bighorns & got back to Casper just before dark. Didn't waste any time, but saw a lotta sights. Just a day trip ya know. Havin' to ski Targhee a coupla extra days 'cause all the roads out were snowed in. Watchin' idjits jump into Corbett's & then doin' the Mushroom Chutes with the locals. Tubin' down Crazy Woman Creek. Fishin' & shootin' snakes on Deer Creek. Now there's an interesting afternoon.

Memories of Wyoming.

900F
 
Boston, I never felt in the least bit of danger anywhere in WY.

The biggest danger is being blown off an icy road, and a pistol can't help there.
 
This thread is really wrecking my patience! I'm heading to Encampment WY 5 weeks from today (not that I'm counting the days or anything). This will be my 3rd varmint hunt there. The late Larry Bullock from Buffer Technologies took me there the 1st time. He said, "You need to come along and shoot some prairie dogs. It's therapeutic." Man was he right. I had never travelled west, and when I saw the mountains, it took my breath away. The whole trip is great. Beautiful country, lots of wildlife, 3 days of varmint hunting, what could be better?
 
Just added "Visist Wyoming" on my Things-to-do-list...
Maybe next year, if I get a green card :). Then I'll atleast visit and just be awed by the scenery.
 
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Viking, Come on down, you'll love it.
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Just need that little green card first. I would cry if I came over as a tourist and then had to leave what seems like a small piece of heaven :(. And no, I ain't going to wetback until the next amnesty :eek:
 
Great writeup, never even realized those train cars were blown off the tracks, it was just a nice little breeze that did it :p :p

Problem about living in the SE corner of Wyoming is all the Colorado transplants along with the other liberal transplants who want to live here, yet change things to how they were "back home" instead of adaption to the Wyoming way of life.

Somebody (saw a lady on her cell phone who looked rather scared, she pulled in, saw my pistol & then pulled out) called 911 on me once for open carrying a pistol while getting fuel at the Flying J in Cheyenne.
 
The Viking said:
Just need that little green card first. I would cry if I came over as a tourist and then had to leave what seems like a small piece of heaven . And no, I ain't going to wetback until the next amnesty
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I was in Sweden (Goteburg) back in the summer of 2001 for about a month. Really nice country-side and nice people for the most part. Was nice to hang out downtown at the bars until the professional hippy protesters showed up in force to demonstrate President Bush and the others. They tore up the main street pretty bad, literally...cobblestone sidewalks, and caused a lot of trouble for the cops. Never did hear what happened to the cop who shot one of them for chucking a five plus pound stone at him.

Joey said:
Somebody (saw a lady on her cell phone who looked rather scared, she pulled in, saw my pistol & then pulled out) called 911 on me once for open carrying a pistol while getting fuel at the Flying J in Cheyenne.
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A armed civilian right down the street a mile from my house... :eek: OMG. :D . Do you ever enter the store...do the employees give you a second look? I have not opened carried in Cheyenne yet, but do out on the prairie and up and the hills. Applied for my CWP back on the 6th.
 
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