Up and ready to see Wyoming today!  Drove all the way across Iowa yesterday.  Today it’s all the way across Nebraska, a little bit in to Wyoming to Cheyenne and then down to Fort Collins, Colorado.   From here we are going to Dodge City, Kansas and then back to Georgia.

Nebraska started off pretty flat and then got in to some rolling hills and buttes as we got closer to Wyoming.   There were a lot of tumbleweeds around the middle of Nebraska.   I tried to get one as they crossed the road but they are so light they just flew.   I did get one as it was going across a field.   The fences are all covered with the tumbleweeds in some areas.

Wyoming was amazing, what little we saw.   Found a great place to pull off and walked some on the nature trails and looked at the hills and rocks.  So gorgeous.

Then crossed over in to Colorado.   We have stopped at a rest area outside of Denver at a place called Ft. Collins.   We are right at the foot of the Rockies.   I hope my pictures turned out.  I think I took 100.   Wow!  Its amazing here.   Greg said he would always get me to Denver!

The rest area here has solar powered trash compactors instead of garbage cans.   Sounds good in theory as you probably dont have to empty them but once a week or so but man do they stink!

We got to our stop here at Budweiser but our load isn’t ready until the morning so we get a good rest tonight since it’s only 6 o’clock here.

DG:  Apologies for not writing last night.  My belly was full of steak and potato and I was sleepy.  That was a good meal last night.  It stuck with me quite a while.  Weeks of eating at a steering wheel made me really appreciate a table and chair.  And someone to wait on us.  And someone else to cook the food.  It’s the little things in life. Tonight it’s ham and cheese sandwich at the steering wheel.

Going through Nebraska into Wyoming is a gradual climb that you barely notice.  However if you have an altimeter with you, or the appropriate app, you find yourself at over 5000 feet after a while.  That’s where we are now.  The mountains are really beautiful.  Can’t wait to see them in the morning.  I sat outside and stared at them until the sun went down.  I really think the Indians messed up by not making the Europeans get back on their boats when they came here.  But if they had, then I wouldn’t be here and neither would you.  So I’m glad they didn’t.  Bet they wished they had.  Anyway, I stared at those mountains for a long time and I imagined as I do when traveling, what it must have been like for the Indians and the first settlers.  Seeing all this land in its natural state.  I don’t see how they were not constantly overwhelmed.  Of course the Indians didn’t have anything to compare it to.  It had always been the same for them for generations.  But coming from Europe, now they had to be overwhelmed by all this open space and the beauty of it all.  I wonder why they didn’t adopt the Indian way of life and preserve this most beautiful landscape in all its original glory.  Something to think about.

So I was trying to make it to our next pick up with what little time I had left with hopes that we could pick up our load and then park for the night and head out first thing in the morning.  But, that wasn’t the case.  Or cases as it is.  We are picking up a trailer full of beer from the Budweiser plant here in Fort Collins, CO in the morning and taking it to Dodge City, Kansas to a place on Wyatt Earp Blvd.

I started to say earlier that traveling through the west I always imagine cowboys riding the plains, bandits hiding out in the hills and Indians on the ridges of the bluffs ready to ride down and attack the wagon train.  Aside from the highways and suburban neighborhoods, it’s pretty much the same as it was then.

Good night and God Bless.