Wyoming

After Albuquerque I continued North-West and made my way to Moab. I had put enough miles on the truck so when I stopped for lunch in Gallup, NM I also had the oil changed. On the way to Moab I took a side route to Four Corners as I thought that it would be cool to stand in four states at one time, and it was a really pretty drive. But when I got there, they of course wanted to charge me $3 and had the 1/2 acre around the area fenced off so I said "screw this, its not worth $3 to straddle some imaginary lines"



In Moab I stayed at the coolest hostel yet: the Lazy Lizard Hostel. At only $9/night it was by far the best deal and had the best people. The local liqueur store also had a fantastic selection of wine. For a controlled state, who ever is stocking the stores is doing a great job and at great prices. I got a Castano Hecula and Burgans Albarino.

On to Wyoming. Off the exit for the ranch I passed dozens of brand new wind generators that I thought were looked great. The image the convey is something of hope, that there might be a bright future after all. I just fear that the more of these that we build, we will begin to slow the winds through those areas and through that cause climate change - the very thing that they are meant to avoid.



On the ranch I jumped immediately into the hay harvest with TJ, Allen, and Pam. Allen raked the cut hay while TJ baled, and I loaded the bales on the (slightly) modified school bus that Pam drove. We did this for two days and then I helped my brother Carl with re-roofing on of the houses. Today we took a break and wen to Sill's for breakfast and three of us ordered scones along with our meals. What we were expecting were the triangular, biscuit type scones...what came were more like elephant ears, great big round slabs of fried dough slathered in honey butter. This afternoon Carl, Allen, and I took the guns out to some BLM land to do some target shooting. Since I am not out here all that often, we pulled out some fun stuff. First were the 12 gauge shotguns and a skeet launcher. After that was target shooting with a 30-06, .22, .17, and a 30-30 (Remington, lever action - an awesome gun and one that I would love to get one day). A good day.