We bid Sarah goodbye this morning, and she headed back up over the pass while Alix and Sonja headed into Wyoming. Our penultimate new state together!
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| The land is too dry in Wyoming to grow much other than grass and consequently cattle. In some places, it's also too windy for less sturdy plants to grow. |
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| The Wyomingins are quite into the cowboy symbol. |
It got really windy about 20 miles into our ride and we had to start trading drafting again. We were really glad to be in Saratoga when we got there, and even more excited when we found a good grocery store, a microbrewery, and free public hot sulphur springs. Such a cool thing for a town to have! We were delighted to sit in the springs and also in the cool, neighboring river.
After the hot springs it was still pretty windy, and we'd heard that the wind only gets worse further north. We'd also heard that one of the roads we had to ride on was unpleasant... so, we ended up hitching a ride with a grandpa and his grandkids who we'd met at the hot springs up to Rawlins. The girls live on a working ranch and are SO smart and fun and aware of the world---We were really impressed with them. They also showed us their horses and their recent foals. Thus continuing the baby animal trend.
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| She was born the day before! |
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| Huge oil refinery in Sinclair. Gas stations are named after this town. |
I see no fences for the horses!
ReplyDeleteWell not right next to them... They had 100s of acres of land to run around on. We drove the pickup truck out into their pasture.
ReplyDeleteGreat seeing the horses with their recent foals.
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