Blogs from Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States, North America

NOTE: Click on any picture to enlarge it. Day 4 - Tuesday Aug 21st,2012 After checking out of the hotel, we decided to look around Cheyenne. Since Cheyenne is the state capital of Wyoming, I thought the town would be a lot bigger. I was surprised to see the population was only about 60,000. We drove to downtown Cheyenne. They had a park area where they hold events. There was a banner over the entrance reading “Wyoming Senior Olympics” . We had to take mama’s picture there. While there we looked around in the visitor center and the train museum gift shop. As we were walking back to the car, mama saw a homeless man she wanted to give some money too. I wouldn’t let her because there were other homeless people out on the street ... read more

Cheyenne has a population of 53,000 and Laramie 27,000. I loved seeing buffaloes on the side of the road but couldn’t grab a picture. I met Maryellen, Dean of the Center of Lifelong Learning at the Training Center. She knew about Boston Reed and had attended one of my webinars. I updated her with all our new information including the acquisition of Boston Reed by Ascend Learning. When I go into a community, I always look around for signs of the need for health care training and job opportunities. Wyoming’s industries include mining, propane, coal, and recreation – but there are always hospitals, pharmacies, and doctor’s offices for young and old. I discovered that there are three campus locations – a good sign for classroom available and easy driving for students in the winter. ... read more

Monday 20th June 2011 On our last night in Silverthorne we heard thunder and saw lightening during the night and were really surprised when we woke up to a white wonderland with snow lightly falling. How fantastic! In our travels we have now seen this on several occasions but we are still thrilled to see it again, After packing and making certain the condo was as we found it, we scraped the snow from the car windscreen and set off. Rags drove very carefully whilst we could see the ice on the road, being reminded of others who skidded by the dented guard rails on the corners. Eventually the road cleared and we drove on quite comfortably. We drove into Denver, had lunch at the Boston Markets where we had what was virtually a beef roast, ... read more

Unfortunately hadn't turned of the alarm on my phone so that went off at 4 am. Excellent - got up and turned it off only for Paul Dolphin to phone at 5 am.... put phone on quiet before throwing it out the window! Everyone woke up about 7 am. So we were in for breakfast around 8 am. First make it yourself waffles excellent! After breakfast we drove into Cheyenne so we could watch the Grand Parade which started at 9.30 and went on for an hour - it was surprisingly good - what a community I know the effort that goes into Downley Day and reckon about 10% of the whole community either appear in the parade or must be invoved in some way. Got some great pictures! After the parade finished we headed over ... read more

Well, I don't really know what I expected but I don't feel a day over 39 this morning !! Maybe turning 40 isn't going to be so bad after all. We woke up in Cheyenne, Wyoming and it was kinda chilly. I put on long pants because we had planned on going ice skating today and I didn't want to freeze when I fell down on the ice. Tim got dressed wearing his shorts and flip-lops as usual and we were off to try something new. We have never been ice skating together and it had been a while for both of us so we were excited. Tim programmed in the Taco John's Civic Center and off we went to do a little skating. Well, we just thought we were going to ice skate this morning. ... read more