Headed East

Laramie Greenbelt, Laramie River, Laramie (of course), WY

 We left the hatchery Friday and currently spending the weekend in Laramie, WY.  As I write this, a cold front is making it's way past Laramie.  It's about 50, overcast, windy (normal), and wet.  Rain stopped a few minutes ago, though I can see rain showers on the radar still to come from the west.

We're fine.  On Friday we'd stopped for the night in Rock Springs, WY where we experienced my first wind storm.  Cloudy, no rain, just high wind gusts that picked the dust & small gravel and "sand" blasted everything in the campground for a couple of minutes.  It came up so quickly that we couldn't get the satellite antenna down quick enough to beat the wind.  Then we worried if we tried to stow the antenna, we would put it in a weaker position and do more damage.  Decided to just ride it out with the antenna up, then stowed it as the wind calmed down to more normal gusts.  We waited until the wind front had passed and then raised the satellite antenna back up.  So far, so good.  Trailer seems to be no worse for wear from the "sand" blast.  Passenger side windows on the truck now have numerous chips in them, but all else seems OK.  Our little step stool that we leave outside only moved about 10 feet.  We somehow ended up with someone's lid to a large plastic storage bin.  Whoever owned it was may more organized than we are.  The packing list of what was inside the storage bin was still perfectly tapped to the lid.  No one ever came and picked it up.  We left it on the picnic table with the lid propped up hoping that whoever owned it would see it.

The Laramie KOA has added about 40 improved (they describe it as "deluxe") sites on what used to be an old rundown mobile home block just to the east of the campground office.  Sure makes the campground more attractive.  Just wonder how all that gravel is going to move around when Laramie experiences those super wind gusts.

We'd planned to head over to the Snowy Range this morning, but the weather has put a dampener on that plan.  Current plan is to head further east tomorrow (Tuesday) and spend next weekend near Des Moines, IA.  Head on into Elkhart the following week.  

Thanks for dropping by and checking up on us.  Probably post more next weekend.  David