The drive on Sunday from Park City to Laramie was interesting. Leaving Park City and traveling to Evanston, Wyoming includes a lot of ups and downs. First, going down. You think you are at the bottom and then it goes down even further.
Once past the 80/84 intersection, the drive is mainly up. If you're not bucking a headwind, it's not bad. Leaving Evanston, however, there are two major climbs, along with several minor ones and no the minor ones are not easy but the major ones are really difficult. Something akin to the climb from Salt Lake City to Parley's Summit just outside of Park City.
It's also interesting that the rock formation is mostly red, like this...
...west of the Continental Divide. And gray on the other side, like this...
Traveling through Wyoming to Laramie was not too bad. The wind was not significant which is very unusual. The weather was cloudy and rainy. The area is basically a desert and when you get close to Laramie, it looks like this from a distance...
As you travel closer, you see a line of green. Closer still and you realize it's trees. Must be like seeing an oasis in the desert.
When you get to Laramie, you realize that there is a river, lots of trees and other vegetation. I only stayed one night so I did not get to explore the area.
Leaving Laramie, however, is extremely difficult because the climb out is one major, long, continuous drive up a mountain without any real flat areas at all. Most trucks are doing 10MPH by the time they get to the top. Lady J was doing about 30MPH. I was proud of her.
Continuing east there is more vegetation...mostly grasslands. I saw a herd of Llamas but few cattle. And surprisingly, only one oil derrick.
Leaving Wyoming and entering Nebraska, the land is flatter but still has rolling hills, more crops, trees and farms begin to dot the land. And blue Harvesters begin popping up. It looks like this...
There are several small, make that tiny towns and most have three things in common. A granary, a water tower and a white steepled church.
Well, it is finally cooling down, so I think I will make a bit of supper.
Tomorrow on to Winterset, Iowa. Unfortunately, it looks like there will be lots of thunderstorms in that area through Wednesday.
I posted a new journal prompt...think of those things that seem run-of-the-mill and see what adventures they bring.
Thanks for stopping by...
See you tomorrow...