A Trip To The Cowboy State – Part 1

We live in Northern Colorado, only a little over an hour from the Wyoming border. One of the nicknames for Wyoming is The Cowboy State. Every now and then, for a change of pace, we drive up to Wyoming, just to get out of Dodge for a bit. And trust me, if you’ve ever been to Dodge, KS, you would definitely want to leave too. 🙂 Yesterday we took another day trip up to Laramie, WY and made the loop back through Cheyenne, WY with Mike and Lauren. They had never been up to Laramie before.

We took a slightly different route going up to Laramie, and stopped at Horsetooth Reservoir first, outside of Ft. Collins, CO. We had talked about taking a picnic lunch with us, but changed our minds. Looking at the res though, I almost wish we had taken a picnic lunch with us. It was so beautiful.

Our drive up to The Cowboy State was a beautiful drive too though. I never get tired of looking beautiful scenery. These were taken from the car.

Once we stopped in Laramie, we walked around town a bit before stopping for lunch.

This was the sign on one of the doors of one of the shops. I love it. I think I am somewhere between the revolutionary and the do-gooder, leaning more towards the revolutionary side. There is no doubt about it; I am a REBEL! 🙂

We dined al fresco at a local restaurant called Altitude Chophouse & Brewery.

The bear made us all feel very welcomed indeed.

We enjoyed some soup, salad, sandwiches and fish & chips. It was good, wholesome food.

After lunch, with full and happy tummies, we walked around a bit more, taking in more sights, before heading out to the Wyoming Territorial Prison.

The other nickname for Wyoming is The Equality State because it was the first state to specifically give women the right to vote, which it did as a territory in 1869 and retained upon entering the Union. Lauren and I are bonding a little with the Wyoming Women.

Stay tuned. Part 2 is coming right up. ………

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      3. It was a while back though, when the kids were still little. We stayed about one week each time, about three days in Grand Teton and four days in Yellowstone every time. One of the times we had a very close up with the famous Grizzly Bear 399 in Grand Teton. She liked to take her cubs down to the roads to be around people to protect them from male Grizzly Bears. Normally that would a huge no-no, but in her case they allowed it because she was so non-aggressive towards people and nothing ever happened. Unfortunately, she was killed by a car last year.

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