Blogs from Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States, North America - page 3

Today was another long drive for us. We left Santa Fe at about 7:30 am and drove about an hour and a half to Taos, NM. When we arrived in Taos, we needed to get an oil change and a tire rotation and so we found a Jeep dealership who could do it right away! What luck! While they took the 45 minutes to do the car work we walked over to a nice little café and had a delicious breakfast. The timing was perfect....as soon as we were done eating, the car was ready. So we got the car and drove into the center of Taos to check out some of the history we had been reading about in the book Blood and Thunder which is a history of Kit Carson (who lived in Taos) ... read more

Been Awhile… You know, it’s been a while since we’ve showed up here on TravelBlog.org and for that, Kel and I both, feel pretty guilty. 2009 has been an incredibly busy year for us. I was accepted to grad school and we subsequently moved half way across the United States to our present location in Boulder, Colorado. With this move came new housing, a new job for Kel and the start of a new educational program for me, the first time I’ve been asked to study in almost ten years. Needless to say, with all the upheaval we haven’t been able to travel much. We both continue to hope that, as time progresses and life begins to feel normal again, that travel will resume. Until then, you’ll get what you’ll get and you’ll like it! ... read more

24th May, 2009 Cheyenne & Laramie Drove over to Laramie today to visit some of my Cowboy heroes, they weren't home. One of the first things you notice about the surrounding farmlands of Cheyenne is it's lack of trees, huge rolling farms (but no trees), this all changed as we headed to Laramie. Along the road they have huge timber barriers in the paddocks, these are there to prevent snow drifts coming down onto the road and in some cases there was still snow on the ground. Laramie is a town of around 27 thousand people, we went out to the old Wyoming Territorial State Prison, well worth the visit, heaps of history here and one of the clients just happened to be the "Butch Cassidy" - he was in there for horse rustling (60 of ... read more

My favorite place to be is up in Wyoming on my land. I have almost 50 acres just out side of Fort Laramie. The reason I like it so much is because there is really no body up there. There is about a third of it that is good hay field. The rest of it is sage brush with some grass mixed in. The best part is that the people we bought the land from do not sell to big time developers so I know there will only be one house per parcel. I can ride my horse up there or just drive my truck around. There is a dry wash that cuts the land in half. This makes it great to screw around on my ATV. Eventually I would like to build a house. ... read more

The Black Hills of South Dakota are an interesting place to climb. The rock is a pegmatite granite- basically very coarse and sometimes knobby rock which generates good friction and interesting possibilities for protection and hand holds. Since most of you reading this don’t climb, let me give you a brief explanation of some of the jargon that is requisite to your understanding of what it is we are doing out here on the road… Climbing is more than the physical act of ascending a rock or rock face, although it certainly does include that; it largely involves the art of “protection” ergo not dying, or maintaining a level of safety where a fall, taken whilst climbing would result in minor injuries rather than major ones. There is always some level of risk involved in climbing, ... read more