http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Wyoming/Lander/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from North America , United States , Wyoming , Lander en-us Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:42:46 BST Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:42:46 BST To briefly reflect on the last 48 hours I must say that it is nice to have a normal bed to sleep in to say nothing of AC and running water. Yet as I lay here watching various media drivel on TV occasionally gagging at all the fawning over Obama occasionally puzzling over the going out of business sales of herds of cattle...I am incessantly leafing through various guidebooks and planning wha http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Wyoming/Lander/blog-307683.html Today is Stef's 23rd birthday hence we are in Lander no longer residing in a tent for a couple nights at least. Happy Birthday http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Wyoming/Lander/blog-307495.html After the rodent rampage that precipitated our departure from Vedauwoo it is safe to say that spirits were lowish... Also when preparing a nice meal on our last night a car filled with Wyoming neer do wells sped by in a maroon Beretta spewing epithets most of which pertained to various bodily orifices...Also on our last climb which didn't go well Stefanie's phone gave up the ghost or at http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Wyoming/Lander/blog-307295.html Happy Birthday BernieWe partied until the wee hours of the morning We shopped at the local Safeway and spared no expense andpurchased the finest chocolate cake out of the bunker but oops we forgot to pick up plates. However cake does taste the same when it's community.....1 fork and passed around YUMMY http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Wyoming/Lander/blog-306546.html It would seem that I spoke prematurely about our solution to the rodent issue. We got our rations raided twice more and that was more than I could handle. I did resort to cursing loudly and repeatedly but that seemingly did nothing. I staked out the car as well and the little buggers field mice were running in and out of the car via passages in the undercarriage at will. I tried to poison http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Wyoming/Lander/blog-306023.html Greetings from the Rocky MountainsApparently I just can't quit this blog but there are lots of friends and family I've been out of touch with the last few weeks so I find myself back here once again. As you may or may not know I've been traipsing around the Wyoming wilderness since early May enrolled in an instructor course with the National Outdoor Leadership School NOLS. The course was a http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Wyoming/Lander/blog-286988.html 71307 Having been out of internet range for many days I will catch up with the first weekrsquos highlights as we leave Yellowstone and head for Cody Wyoming. Disclaimer pardon the shift of tenses in the telling. Irsquom copying from some of my notes and writing from memory. Please excuse lapses in my grammar especially my crit group. Irsquom on vacation Day 1 76 Mile 0 To Bill http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Wyoming/Lander/blog-181193.html