Starting mileage: 7148 Starting time: 8:30 am Ending mileage: 7501 Ending time: 5:30 pm Travel mileage: 353 Travel time: 9:00 hours Leaving Fort Collins, it is just a short way up I-25 to Wyoming and rolling prairie that we would be traveling through most of the day. There were electronic signs warning of 50+ mph winds and our car was certainly being blown around. A wind farm on one side of the road had all the turbines spinning but the wind farm on the other side didn't have any turbines turning, strange. The wind must often be very strong as most houses had tree windbreaks planted on the west side of the house and cattle were huddled behind wooden shelters along the road. There are also functioning old-fashioned windmills that pump water for the cattle on the range and occasional pump-jacks slowly bringing up crude oil. We passed incredibly long trains of coal (bad coal!) cars loaded to the top. I suspect the little town of Lusk, WY is a speed trap. The ...
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