August 2, 2012

August 2, 2012

We pulled out of our camping spot at 7:30.  We had a hard rain pass through just before we were ready to leave.  It lasted for about three minutes.  All the time the sun was still shining!

We used the dump station at Cabela’s on our way to Sam’s Club to get diesel fuel.  We got onto I-90 heading west.  Empty holding tanks, and a full fuel tank...ah, life is good.

At Spearfish we met RVing friends, Ginny and Ed, for breakfast.  It was really good to have the time to visit with them.  Hopefully, the next time we pass this way we can stay awhile and do some caching.  Several years ago when we were in the area we introduced them to geocaching.  It is fun when we can cache with friends, but this time we needed to “keep on trucking.”

We crossed into Wyoming with much honking and yahooing.  At Sundance, we turned south to take a back road through eastern Wyoming.  It was remote, dry, and windy.  Not a place we would want to live, and a lot of people must feel the same way.  There were very few houses for miles and miles.

I-25 south took us to Chugwater, Wyoming, population 221.  We parked for the night on a gravel lot by a closed cafe.  The story of how Chugwater got its name goes like this...Indians hunting buffalo drove them over a nearby cliff.  When the animals reached the ground below, a sound of "chugging" was heard by the hunters. Since a stream was near the base of the cliffs, the site of the stampede was called "water at the place where the buffalo chug."

Today’s Travel Totals: Mileage, 327---Critter sightings, lots of antelope.