Buffalo, WY

Big Horn Mountains as seen from the Clear Creek Trail

Buffalo Wyoming.  Ya just gotta love a town who's motto is: "More than just a one horse town."  We're here to stock up, do laundry, etc, before the Escapee's Escapade 2011 in Gillette, WY (starts tomorrow, August 26th, for those of us attending the "Boot Camp" program portion).  We're attending the Escapade to learn what we're suppose to already know about full time RVing and continue to meet new people.  We're gonna be busy!

Buffalo is nice.  It sets just below the intersection of I-25 and I-90 and southeast of the Big Horn Mountain Range.  It's a horse town.  The town's history is of the Plains Indians and the Bozeman Trail.  Apparently, there are wild herds of horses near here.  It has two highly rated RV Parks plus one not so highly rated campground.  The RV Park's cable system brings in Denver, CO TV stations as local stations.  Oh, and we're told there are two good steak houses here, too. 

The town has also invested in a real nice bike/walk path called the Clear Creek Trail System.  The trail covers 17 miles, follows the Clear Creek, and transverses much of the town's historic district and wetlands developed to offset the wetlands lost due to the construction of a nearby dam.  We biked some of it.  Much of it too uphill for us (you're traveling to the Big Horn range when cycling west.)  We ran across a gaggle of kids (and their adult chaperone) with several bicycles piled in the middle of the trail (looked like the remnants of a NASCAR pile up).  Result was one skinned up kid.  A little further up the trail was a very young man on the ground with his bike on top of him and asking for help.  Seems his shoe came untied and the shoestrings wrapped around the pedal (sounds like something that would happen to me).  With more patience than I'll ever muster, Donna got it mostly unraveled.  Soon the adult chaperone shows up & finishes the project.  Kid ties his shoe and back on the bike he goes - proud of him!

So that's today's news.  We've got a thunderstorm overhead.  This town could really use the rain!  See ya! David