Breakfast at the very tidy, but expensive Days Inn in Worland WY, chat with a young family from South Dakota (their car looked like it hit all the grasshoppers in Montana that we missed), then figure out where to go. Deb sent me an article on the Wind River Range and sure enough it was one of the three ways to go this morning. The Wyoming county roads gave us more wonderfulness today. We weaved around a bit then found Rt 20 East (an old coast to coast road), and sure enough it funneled us through a long canyon with a fresh stream, just beautiful, especially after spending the last few days on the hot flat eastern Montana plains. We had to go through three small tunnels to get out of the end of the canyon, then a dam with a large state park where you can bring your RV and your boat.
We did see an enormous number of wind turbines today, not bad for a coal state. And I saw two NRG Systems TallTowers (the company I used to work for makes towers for measuring the wind to figure out where to put wind turbines).
Then back to the hot flat nothingness as we took a combination of roads to Casper (not much to write home about) and then south on the endless flat Rt 437. There is no gas on these roads so fill up whenever you can. We found gas in Medicine Box (85 octane only), then finished up in Laramie WY. Dinner at a truck stop diner place (no beer) then back to the skanky motel to crash.Odometer:6216-5893=323 miles
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