CARAVANING THROUGH WYOMING
When we were at Pismo Beach, I couldn’t figure out why the commercial RV tow truck brought in or took out two or three big rigs a day. Then our friends in Nopomo explained it. There is a big RV storage lot near them that holds a lot of RVs that belong to people from San Francisco. The people call up the towing co. and have their rigs taken to the park for the weekend or a week and then drive up and find everything in place. What a deal!
It was interesting outside of Bakersfield to pass a field full of oil pumps and then a ways further to pass a hillside covered with wind generating windmills. A couple of overnight stops in Walmarts in Barstow and North Las Vegas turned out very well with lots of room, quiet nights and best of all, free.. St. George, Utah was so hot that we were happy to leave it.
With only one night in Salt Lake City, we moved to Ogden to be near the RV repair place that was to give us our Christmas presents early. When you RV, things get down to the basics and we were ecstatic to have new ‘toys’ added to our rig. Zoe was very happy to get a system to fill the tires off our engine, a sewer macerator and “steer safe” that minimizes the push of wind from passing big trucks. I was very pleased to have an automatic electric cord reel and an automatic electric hose reel that make my jobs easier. We also met up with ten other Alfas that were caravanning to the Alfa rally in Gillette, Wyoming and are now with them in Lander, Wyoming.
Residents of Wyoming like to say that there are more cows that people in their state and I believe it. They have the lowest population of any state. The scenery is awe-inspiring. At first there were dramatic bright red cliffs and then shrub covered rolling hills and flat green fields. Then we climbed through wind-carved multicolored sand cliffs. The variegated cliffs changed from sage, to tan to charcoal to green and then to brown.
We were the last rig in the caravan so it was exciting to see ten rigs just like ours winding down the road ahead of us. We hit snow coming over the Continental Divide but fortunately the snow was wet and didn’t stick. Then heavy rain hit us. The heavy gray clouds were spectacular. Everywhere you look here is another fantastic wide-open landscape. Now the sun is out and the snow is spectacular over the golf course we are parked next to.
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