Friday 5 April 2013

Day Three - Lincoln, Nebraska to Laramie, Wyoming - a real roller coaster day - temp and terrain wise - Lovely spring day everything starting to green up, temps getting warmer, saw wild turkeys in field next to I-80.  Manure being spread on the fields and terrain in getting flatter.  There are huge farm irrigation sprinklers on every field - never seen anything like it - sprinklers as far as the eye can see.  Kearney Nebraska 18 C - sandy soil less farming and more grazing, lots of sloughs, very windy - saw dust storm east of North Platte -sky was beige - 23 C - desolate landscape, herds of hundreds of  Black Angus very few Herefords.  27 c in Ogalala had to put air conditioning on in car!!!!!  Very dry - farmers raising dust clouds while working the fields.  A tumble weed hit the car:)  Still no road kill - not a thing so have been unable to try any recipe from "Road Kill Manifold Cookery"  Saw Cabela's world  headquarters in Sidney, Nebraska but didn't stop.  After leaving Cheyene, Wyoming began to climb the Laramie Range - wind farms everywhere again, herds of pronghorn antelope, 35 mph + wind gusts as we climbed - still some snow in places 7 C at top of Range 8640 elevation - pine trees, red soil and rocks dry gulches, our ears popped then down we rolled on  twisting highway - 5% grade woo hoo. pulled into Laramie which sits in a valley between the Laramie Range and the Medicine Bow Mountains - bit of snow and cool and windy.




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