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Classic scene driving through Wyoming

Fun in Big Piney (Pop. 552) & Marbleton (Pop. 1094)

Bowling!!! What better way to spend a cold evening in Wyoming? It was so fun!

A Tour of La Barge, WY (Population 551)

Lauren and Matthew posing before the walk.

One of two essentials in a Wyoming town. And this one is optional.

I like brightly colored machinery

Katie and I had a good laugh at this...when no one was around. Irony of the day? I was wearing my "use commas" shirt. Grammar, anyone? (no charge for the free advertising)

When Matthew did not want to walk anymore, he just tucked himself in.

It was the only curve I saw.

The second of two essentials for a Wyoming town; not optional. This town used to have 3 bars. Now it is down to 1. This was the most recent bar to close.

One of the local motels

I laughed aloud at this reader board

One of the lovely homes we passed. Many nearby are being torn down by a big backhoe.

Lauren did not want to wear her mittens...

The beautiful cliffs over look Green River (the river) and La Barge (the town)

La Barge has more to it than the above pictures. I met the people and they are wonderful and down to earth. I also did not highlight the library, which reminded me a bit of the Manzanita Library. I really did enjoy the walk and the tour of town. Thank you, Katie and kids!!!

Getting Ready for the Day

Katie doing Lauren's hair

Matthew building a railroad

My turn with the kids

Bald Eagles

I was lucky enough to see a pair of bald eagles on my way to La Barge, WY. I had just turned off I-80 and was headed north on I-189 towards Kemmerer, WY. 

UCSAR MRT Training at Rock Canyon

MRT or Mountain Rescue Training

We're hiking up to "The Kitchen" at "The Green Gate"

We're at the Green Gate

Some of my fellow UCSAR volunteers. We practiced rope rescue techniques. Pretty cool stuff!

Hiking the Y

Some Book Quotes I Love

"We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors. I think we wake up every day with high intentions and by dusk we have routinely fallen short." - from Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson

"I see now that the loneliness of God is His strength: what would He be if He listened to your jealous little counsels? Well, my loneliness shall be my strength too; it is better to be alone with God; His friendship will not fail me, nor His counsel, nor His love. In His strength I will dare, and dare, and dare, until I die." - from Saint Joan by Bernard Shaw

"The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice." - from Daniel Deronda by George Eliot

"One has only a life of one's own." - from Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

"People lean, either in their dreams or in their actions, toward that place where they suspect their inner lights are coming from." - from Evidence of Things Unseen by Marianne Wiggins

"What Shakespeare wanted to express about being a human being in Romeo and Juliet is that it's hard to care about two things at the same time - like caring about the Montague family and caring about Juliet, too...If Romeo had never met Juliet, maybe they both would have still been alive, but what would they have been alive for is the question that Shakespeare wants us to answer." - from "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt

"Thinking has, many a time, made me sad, darling; but doing never did in all my life. My theory is a sort of parody on the maxim 'Get money, my son, honestly if you can; but get money.' My precept is 'Do something, my sister, do good if you can; but at any rate, do something'...Blot your misdeeds out by a good deed, as soon as you can." - from North & South by Elizabeth Gaskell