Heh, reminds me of the Longmire novels. Wonderful descriptions of Wyoming along with a hero that is obviously anathema to progressives...a man with brains, cojones, and morals. Don’t know if the new gov is a Walt Longmire, but hopefully there are some Walts there that’ll control any influx of progressives - who always ruin whatever they touch.
More Wyoming. My parents were married in Ogden Utah in February 1947 (at the parsonage; there was a coal miners’ strike and there wasn’t enough coal to heat the church) and drove across southern Wyoming to their honeymoon in Denver. My parents said there was a “ground blizzard” for much of their drive along old US 30; sunny but high winds blowing the drifting snow horizontally a few feet above the ground. They said it was surreal (and kind of dangerous); you could see oncoming cars absolutely clearly from the windows up but you couldn’t really see the road.
He not only survived, but grew wealthy from wise investments in gas and oil and built his first hotel complete with restaurants, shops and gas station not far from where he sheltered himself and sheep in that blizzard. Little America, Wyoming was a resounding success when it was completed in 1952 and was soon thereafter duplicated with similar resort like gas stops in Salt Lake City, Utah and Cheyenne, Wyoming. It is estimated that one in three cars along I-80 stopped at a Little America resort in its halcyon days.
Robert Holding, the founder, died in 2013 with a net worth just north of $3 billion, despite giving away much of it in his earlier years.
I hope the good folks of Wyoming hold on to their roots and don’t slipping blue like their neighbors in Montana and Colorado.
I live in Wyoming, Originally from Idaho, although I have also lived in Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, California and New York.
I love it here!!! I often say, Utah is trying to be California .... Idaho is trying to be Utah .... and Wyoming is happy to be Wyoming!
(Please convince everyone that the boring barren scenery of the I-80 corridor is representative of the rest of the State .... that way we’ll keep the liberals out and Wyoming will stay Forever Free!!!)
We’ve already picked out a home in Wyoming, in the event the communist takeover here in Colorado gets out of hand.
I dunno...he’s got no s#it on his boots...
Looks like some of the truckers drive the same way in high winds as they do in heavy rain and snow storms....
Guns, prosperity, freedom and pretty girls in cowboy boots. Yeah, I agree. More Wyoming, please!
Jo.a
We need more fly over country and less Washington!!
My favorite state.