Turd on the Run

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Getting things back on track here....

Left Lake Granby the next morning and headed north towards Casper, WY. My dad and uncle were born and raised there, uncle has been there his whole life and recently retired. The last time we saw each other was probably 20+ years ago so a visit was long overdue. Rode north through Walden, the CO-WY border, into Laramie. I was told that this is THE college town of the state, coulda fooled me. Wyoming is a whole 'nother place lemme tell ya. Grabbed some lunch there and continued on north. Things got reeeaaaal spread out from there.





That is Highway 77, a spur road off of 487. They had 487 completely closed due to an accident. 77 is closed in the winter apparently and I could certainly see why. NOTHING out there as far as you could see. No houses, ranches, nothing. One of those roads that makes you wonder why they even built it. It was really cool riding it and getting that big wide open feeling that one can only get out west.

Rest of the way to Casper was much more of the same. Lots of open countryside and antelope. Rolled into town very much on empty and met up with the aunt and uncle. Had a really good time catching up with them, I shoulda done it a long time ago. My uncle is very into woodworking, leather working, tool restoration etc and we had a great time looking through all his stuff. He's also got a museum sized collection of rare and unique knives, pistols, rifles, you name it. Was sad to say goodbye after two days but the all present tug of the road and forward movement drove me back out into the void.