Wyoming Days 3 & 4

Ah, dear friends, the stress of trying to meet a daily Blog posting deadline!  So sorry I didn’t get one written, let alone published, yesterday!  I shall attempt to explain why!

Sunday evening shortly after posting “Day 2”, the weather began to turn on us… just a little.  First it rained.  It felt so wonderful, sitting in the comfort of our trailer with all the windows open, watching rain pour on the mountains!  But, then, over night Sunday into Monday, the winds picked up.  Scott and I had forgotten already from years past that wind is the natural state of things here in the mountains of Wyoming!

We were awakened a couple of times during the night by the wind.  Once was to close the windows so that the venetian blinds would stop rattling.  And the second time, the trailer was rocking so much that I couldn’t sleep.

Monday dawned again for us in shades of orange and melon.  But having enjoyed our previous evening’s rum & coke perhaps a teensy bit too much, I slept in until the multi-hued sunrise was nearly over.

Scott and I spent the morning doing a major cleaning of the trailer, going through all the cabinets and picking out things we just no longer needed, and straightening up.  We’ve not done this to this degree before, so it took a couple of hours. 

With our burst of high-energy cleaning out of the way, there was nothing to do but wait for our friends to join us from Omaha.  So, we dozed… but the wind kept up it’s blasting, and the trailer rocked, and the trailer swayed.  And we grew quite tired of the wind.  I knew our friends, who would be staying in a tent would be miserable in that wind… gale force it seemed at times.  So, about 3 pm, we hooked up the trailer, and went in search of a better sight.  We found one with a stunning view, and less vulnerable to the wind than our first site.

We were just moving the second load of stuff down to the new location (Linda, you’ll know our new place… Ft. Collins had a couple of trailers here the year before last, just where the road turns sharply to head up to the meadow where we have stayed the past 3 years) when our friends called and asked for a little help, as they were close but not quite sure of the way in to camp.  So we drove up to the corner where 701 meets 701c, then guided our friends in to our site.

By 6:30, we had their tent set up and our trailer more or less situated, and Scott began cooking.

This morning, since Rendezvous hasn’t officially started, we just sort of puttered around, drove up to the rest stop, then down to Laramie for some more supplies.  Returning to camp, we set up the external shower, and have spent the rest of the day just doing what we do best when camping.  Absolutely nothing.  Sitting.  Chatting.  Playing with the puppy (our friends brought up their 6 month old dachsund pup.)

All in all, our trip is going about the way a camping trip should!