It is all I can do not to fling my arms open wide and belt out the “Sound of Music” at the top of my lungs when we revisit the Snowy Range Mountains this week. However, concerns that I will be locked away for cruel and unusual harassment of wildlife and offense to local tourists […]
Wyoming Settlers, Colorado Jeeping and an Intergalactic Spaceport
If you can remember back to my last adventure, you know that I almost froze on the Snowy Range at over 10,000 feet. Our next group trip takes in the opposite direction climatically speaking. We head east to Fort Laramie where the temperatures this day top out well over 100 degrees (my Jeep thermometer registers […]
Wyoming – WY Not?
Except for seasons (Winter: mid-Sept through May, Spring: June, Summer:July and Fall: August through the first week in September) there are many things to love about Wyoming. For instance they have great slogans: That’s WY Wyoming – Social Distancing Since 1890 Also they normally have loads of Rodeos and Summer Festivals. This year Laramie celebrated […]
Wyoming Work and Play
Today I complete my first broom here at the Territorial Prison. Back in the 1890s, the good conduct prisoners produced brooms on an assembly line here. The profit from the brooms helped support the prison and line the prison Lessee’s pockets (if he was lucky). I calculate the profit that might be generated on the […]
Pardon Us, Please??
When Matt and Sherry agree to join me here in Laramie, I am not sure Sherry expects the trouble she will experience trying to keep Matt out of a Wyoming Prison. First Matt is sentenced to hard labor making brooms here in Laramie. Next he finds himself behind bars in the Wyoming State Pen in […]
Finally Landed at the Big House
Downtown Laramie has murals on almost every building. This is one of my favorites. Yes, I arrived safely in Laramie last week. Matt and Sherry are also here. I learn this week that Jack and Nina are on their way too so it will soon be a big party here at the prison. Yippee! From […]
