Riding the Casper Rail-Trail and Visiting Sacajewea

Riding the Casper Rail-Trail and Visiting Sacajewea

After a night camping at Casper Mountain Park, we drove down the steep, serpentine mountain road to Evansville, Wyoming, and parked Blue right at the middle point of the 8.5 mile Casper Rail-Trail. We parked at a Super 8 and took to the trail which was just across the street. Our logic in parking half way was that if anything went wrong on the 8.5 mile trek (17 miles roundtrip), it wouldn’t be as far to get back to Blue. As it turned out, all went well, but with David’s recent spate of flats, we couldn’t be too careful.

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A Tiny Taste of Taos

A Tiny Taste of Taos

We last visited Taos, New Mexico two or three decades ago. We remembered it as a charming, quaint, artsy town with a decidedly Native American/Spanish influence evidenced immediately in its adobe structures and the large spacious plaza in the old town. Art galleries, boutiques and restaurants abounded, as well as history and culture and it seemed like an appealing place to revisit along our route

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