It looks like in 1964, Wyoming voted for Johnson!!! I'd be thinking about moving out!!! ��
Wondering if you moved there, or were born there? I've had people tell me they can't stand the hemmed in feeling they get back east. I can understand that. You want to feel small and insignificant, take a drive from Casper to Rawlins on a cold dark night. Or, one of many other areas. I've crisscrossed most of Wyoming, usually trying to get around a snowstorm. Elk Mountain to be avoided at all costs in the winter!!! Never got far off the pavement tho, which is where they usually hide the good stuff.
Moved here; wife has family that has been here
forever, her brother's mother-in-law was born in a sod house a few miles north of Laramie; but I fit right in. Have had a couple guys at the rifle range ask how long my family had been in Wyoming and were surprised to learn I had just moved in. The open prairie is nice and has it's own beauty but being from the mid-west I like the mountains, just wish they had hardwoods instead of pines.
Went to a talk by a guy that wrote a book on the history I-80; seems the state tried to convince the feds to build the highway along route 30 which swings north through Medicine Bow due to winter conditions at Elk Mountain. But the feds being all knowing and all took the current route because it was something like 13 miles shorter and saved some money, declaring the highway would never be closed due to winter conditions.
Well; in his book is a picture of the highway department clearing snow the first winter, snow was 13 feet deep-
on top of an overpass, the snow fence was developed in Wyoming in an attempt to keep I-80 open.
Oh, by the way, Elk Mountain is the northern end of a mountain range named
THE SNOWY RANGE DUH wonder why the locals named it that? Last winter I-80 was closed from Cheyenne to Laramie more times than I can remember (winter wind gusts on top of Pole Mt can top 150 mph) and closed from Cheyenne to Utah 3 times for more than a week each.
The wife and I are retired so when things shut down due to snow we pull the blinds, put the air mattress in front of the fireplace and while away the time
I have an F350 dully, diesel 4X4 that I put 500-1,000 pounds of sand in the back with Goodrich KOII tires (Canadian rated for extreme snow) so not much can stop me around town
if I want to get out and about.
