30
May
2009
East Bound and Down: Trying to be the best at exercisin’
This post will be light on the words and heavy on the photos. A few responses we’ve gotten so far have lead us to believe that people a). prefer photos and b). barely read our thoughtfully written posts. That, and we’re in a hurry to get back out on the road and on to Douglas.
Since climbing the hill out of Jackson, we’ve descended into the basin and range of central Wyoming and left ourselves at the mercy of the state’s persistent winds. Some days they push us along and we are all smiles and chit chat, and some days they shove back and its cursing and a heavy grind–most days it’s a little of both.
We left the Trans-Am trail outside of Dubois and have been making our own way across route 26 through Casper and Douglas. The roads are long with slow rolling hills and the towns, when we finally get to them, are sometimes not even towns at all. A stretch of road coming out of Riverton, WY, left us with only one possible store option (a dicey one at that) for over 70 miles. And not a sign in sight hinting at the empty road ahead. We did get a few good signs in the past few days, though. Here’s three that paint a picture of the ground we’ve covered. The first is from our campsite outside Riverton where, apparently, all rules are explained as thoroughly and directly as possible. The second two are from our only service stop in 70 miles in Hiland, WY, a one horse and four mangy dog town.
Love the quotation marks. The down home nature of the thing just makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
More pictures and captions to come we’re out of time here.
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- Nothing left unclear in Riverton, WY. To think that there's a reason they had to put this sign up makes you wonder.
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- Hiland, WY. One horse and four mangy dog town
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- Hiland, WY. The only store for 50 miles each direction. Confederate flag flying high out front. Need we say more?
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- Early morning departure from Andy's house. He lives on the side of the mountain. Hope the brakes are working...
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- Bison in the Tetons.
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- Still some snow up in Togwotee Pass
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- Togwotee Pass and 6th (and final) Contintental Divide crossing - highest point on our journey
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- Coming down Togwotee Pass. 25 mile downhill. We like it.
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- Leaving the snow covered hills. For good?
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- Peanut noodles. Delicious
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- Doubis park. Gotta take advantage of the ammenities when offered.
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- Campsite in the yard at Rich Bingham's house (Doubis, WY). Thanks Rich, the grass was lovely
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- Wyoming loves the Jackalope. This is a Jackalope museum inside of the Exxon Gas Station, Doubis, WY
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- BJ wanted to go see the Weasel statue (Doubis, WY). That's a funny lookin Weasel
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- Someone said that this entry-way would attract more customers. Looks like a bit of a deterrent...
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- Scenery. Whatever
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- No hands. No Big Deal. BJ loves the Wind River Range
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- More Wind River Range. Red sandstone canyon walls carved and sculpted by the wind. Very Soutern Utah-esq
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- Wind River Tange. Coming out of Doubis, WY. Some of the most beautiful stretches of highway thus far.
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- Long live the Sundownwer. Proliferate. Proliferate. Proliferate
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- Changing tires, again. It seems bad, tho in the greater scheme of things, not too big of a deal. New Goo Tubes will hopefully limit photos of this...
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- Burrito night. Not much better than that
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- Life on the road...BJ settles in
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- Aidan likes to recall info from Weather and Atmosphere class - these are cumulous nimbus clouds (or not, but thats what every cloud formation is according to him) . Cool clouds nonetheless
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Don’t cut short your messages I am really enjoying. You guys are having a ball, anyway it sounds like it. I wish Clay had been able to make it. I really felt bad when he had to drop out. I have been in that part of the country and I loved it. Are you going through Iowa and if you are what part will you be going through.
No. No. We love the text!