I am currently in Evanston, WY, on my first layover stay since leaving Casper eight days ago. I broke my one-day-a-week-of-rest rule without realizing it, keeping my eyes instead on…
June 30, 2021 Jeffrey City, WY to Sweetwater Station, WY 20.7 miles/740 ft. High 70s/light wind https://ridewithgps.com/trips/70298487 You may recall that a few days ago a few days ago I…
Please bear with me one more day. I promise to start catching up tomorrow. But for what it’s worth, today has been great in ways I never would have expected:…
So, Expect Nothing is the title of the post I plan to write, not an admonition to you as a reader of this blog. That being said, I don’t have…
Just a note to say no post tonight. I still need to catch up from about noon yesterday (June 30), but I can’t write very well because of mosquitoes, and…
I apologize, but I seem to be getting a half-to a full-day behind on my blog posts. This post is no exception. It’s going to bring me up to my…
Yesterday’s post left off with me checking into the Green Mountain Motel. But there’s a part before that I omitted. That would be Split Rock. Split Rock was the next…
June 29, 2021 Independence Rock, WY to Jeffrey City, WY 41.4 miles/1,200 ft. mid-70s/northeast wind 10 mph https://ridewithgps.com/trips/70251698 First, a confession. I adapted this post’s title from Bernard De Vito…
June 28, 2021 Casper, WY to Independence Rock, WY 57.8 miles/2,700 ft. 70s/northeast winds https://ridewithgps.com/trips/70194128 Looking over my short version from yesterday, I have to say that I pretty much…
Back in Scottsbluff, I brought up the concept of period rush. As you will recall, to history buffs, a period rush is when you want to transcend time and touch the…
I have started and discarded multiple posts today. It seems I just don’t have the focus; or rather, my focus must be elsewhere. It’s supposed to be clear tomorrow (with…
All day I’ve been thinking about mail, and especially about how mail policies in the mid-1800s relate to the Pony Express. After struggling with the issue though, I’ve decided it’s…
Hanging out in Casper, waiting for a break in the weather. It looks like once this series of storms clears out it’s going to heat up again. Not as hot…
I want to tell you a couple of sailing stories that are really not about sailing at all. The first is about two guys, Captains Ray and Phil, with whom…
I have been putting around Casper, WY, all day. I thought I would be hunkered inside, hiding from thunderstorms, but they aren’t due in now until late tonight. Fortunately, there…