Arrival, with a side order of Nowhere, WY
My apologies to the residents of Cheyenne for my previous post. I unknowingly questioned why anyone would live in Cheyenne. I now understand why. Beyond Cheyenne is Rawlins, after which is a surreal scape leading to Landler. High Plains Drifter meets Total Recall. You reach the crest of a hill, and look down into a valley 10 miles wide and 30 miles long seeing only road and scrub brush. I drove towards one large hill for an hour, and after that time it still appeared in the distance. Lewis and Clarke crossed this path, as did countless thousands of settlers later in the century, with no sign of water or direction. I drove across this space in several hours – each hour which would have taken a week for them – and I wanted to turn around. ...