So if we're staying at some smallish place, we try to stock up provisions ahead of time to avoid paying $5.00 a half gallon for milk or $1 bananas. But Thermopolis has a "real" grocery store, not a chain, but a nice independent local store. We still expected to get hosed for the few items we needed, but I found prices ranged from good ($1.00 broccoli, $1.99 milk) to average (.69 bananas) to exhorbitant ($6.79 for 4 avocados! - we didn't buy any).
Otherwise, it seemed to be a typical Wyoming store - groceries, pharmacy, household goods, and guns. Yep, guns on sale at the grocery.
And it's not a park where we're staying, but here's the first one we've seen with its own firearms store.
Well, depending on who you believe, it might have gotten to about 92 here today. Tomorrow it's supposed to be about 82 tops. There were warnings about possible rotating power outages earlier in the day but those never happened. The cooling sea breeze has started to kick in so that will help.
I remember spending a summer in the Sacramento Valley back in the early 70's. One day working in a field a thermometer in the shade registered 113F. We all drank lots of water.
It's comforting to know that one can purchase a gun and rent a tipi at the same location. You could shoot someone inside their tipi and they'd never know what hit them. Plus, it would be hard to lose your gun, or anything else, in a tipi. There are no corners or hiding places. Genius.
It's comforting to know that one can purchase a gun and rent a tipi at the same location. You could shoot someone inside their tipi and they'd never know what hit them....
That "Old West Experience" costs extra, but I think Lady O would disapprove. I hope the O Reallys get to see a fish roundup and branding at the Trout Ranch.
It's comforting to know that one can purchase a gun and rent a tipi at the same location. You could shoot someone inside their tipi and they'd never know what hit them....
That "Old West Experience" costs extra, but I think Lady O would disapprove. I hope the O Reallys get to see a fish roundup and branding at the Trout Ranch.
Yeah, that fish roundup and branding sounds like a damn fine thing to watch. Plus, the days of fish rustlers are long gone so they won't have to worry about that. I've heard that back in the day fish rustlers would be chased down, taken back to the river, and drowned on the spot.
Just to clarify, we aren't staying at the Trout Ranch - I just saw the sign and thought it was so Wyoming. We won't be watching them brand any fish, either. Eating some trout, however, is likely.
Just to clarify, we aren't staying at the Trout Ranch - I just saw the sign and thought it was so Wyoming. We won't be watching them brand any fish, either. Eating some trout, however, is likely.
Good to know. I think it would be cool if trout were about 200 times their current size and western "fishboys" or "troutboys" had to "break" them like horses. The troutboys would wear goggles and have fish hooks on their fish boots instead of spurs. The fish reins would be made from intertwined strands of 200lb test fishing line. The ass of their fish pants would be like sandpaper to facilitate a good steady ass to fish interface. People would come from miles around to see such an event and bet thousands on their favorite fish or fishboy.
Edit: I have it on good authority that it won't be long before Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho will be fenced off and become a white trash penal colony so I wouldn't waste a lot of time around there.
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... I have it on good authority that it won't be long before Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho will be fenced off and become a white trash penal colony so I wouldn't waste a lot of time around there.
How would that be a change? Anyhow, Tennessee is the model.
... I have it on good authority that it won't be long before Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho will be fenced off and become a white trash penal colony so I wouldn't waste a lot of time around there.
How would that be a change? Anyhow, Tennessee is the model.
I always root for the bull in bull-riding, so I guess I'd root for the trout.
Careful what you wish for.
Well, TN sure isn't a haven for tolerance, or even rational fact based policies. But I submit that MS and AL and GA rank higher in this category. And I doubt there's anything more exciting than riding a fierce 2,000lb bull trout to the admirable cheers of a trout crowd. Hell, there's just nothing like it this side of the Rockies.
... I have it on good authority that it won't be long before Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho will be fenced off and become a white trash penal colony so I wouldn't waste a lot of time around there.
How would that be a change? Anyhow, Tennessee is the model.
I always root for the bull in bull-riding, so I guess I'd root for the trout.
Careful what you wish for.
Well, TN sure isn't a haven for tolerance, or even rational fact based policies. But I submit that MS and AL and GA rank higher in this category. And I doubt there's anything more exciting than riding a fierce 2,000lb bull trout to the admirable cheers of a trout crowd. Hell, there's just nothing like it this side of the Rockies.
... I have it on good authority that it won't be long before Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho will be fenced off and become a white trash penal colony so I wouldn't waste a lot of time around there.
How would that be a change? Anyhow, Tennessee is the model.
I always root for the bull in bull-riding, so I guess I'd root for the trout.
Careful what you wish for.
Well, TN sure isn't a haven for tolerance, or even rational fact based policies. But I submit that MS and AL and GA rank higher in this category. And I doubt there's anything more exciting than riding a fierce 2,000lb bull trout to the admirable cheers of a trout crowd. Hell, there's just nothing like it this side of the Rockies.
"If you like to fish when RVing, remember that:
Tennessee law forbids you to lasso a fish."
Yeah, but as far as I know, they don't mention dynamite or hand grenades. I long for the days when TN had guys like Estes Kefauver. Or even Howard Baker.
Raft trip down the river was spectacular. Water level lowish, but still a great ride. And bighorn sheep on the cliffs. Dinosaur museum was also excellent, with (mostly) real restorations of some huge dinos including a T Rex and a 'super-saurus" that was 110 feet long, one of the longest dinos ever found. And we got a tour of a dig site, with footprints and bones still in place and being excavated. And they had a car show in the state park that didn't have all that many cars, but the ones that were there were pretty good. Heavy on late 60's Chevelle types, but several traditional t-rods, trucks, and some 50's Chevys and Fords. Plus one Christine with a matching little pod camper and boat. And a horse show at the fairgrounds. Turns out Thermopolis is a pretty fun place, but the weather still sucks.
I wonder if those bighorns ever do any cliff diving? And if so, is it a scam or a front to conceal the few sheep who get drunk as hell and fall off the mountain into the water? This would be a good subject for Geraldo Rivera to cover.
"If you like to fish when RVing, remember that:
Tennessee law forbids you to lasso a fish."
In Oregon, you may not use canned corn for fish bait.
What if you take it out of the can?
You may not go whale fishing in Nebraska at any time. In Ohio, whale fishing is banned on Sundays.
Even at the Indian casinos or does that violate their sovereignty?
Louisiana jambalaya that is prepared in the “traditional method” is not subject to the state’s sanitary codes.
Do not put your ice cream cone in your back pocket, at least while in Alabama. It’s illegal there. (Kentucky and Georgia also have this law on the books.)
:confusion-scratchheadblue:
In Marion, Ohio, it’s illegal to eat a doughnut while walking backward.
Yeah, but as far as I know, they don't mention dynamite or hand grenades....
You can legally hunt rabbits, squirrels, and other fur-bearing animals in Connecticut. Just don’t use dynamite, fire, smoke, brimstone, or sulfur. Those methods are illegal.
Raft trip down the river was spectacular. Water level lowish, but still a great ride. And bighorn sheep on the cliffs. Dinosaur museum was also excellent, with (mostly) real restorations of some huge dinos including a T Rex and a 'super-saurus" that was 110 feet long, one of the longest dinos ever found. And we got a tour of a dig site, with footprints and bones still in place and being excavated. And they had a car show in the state park that didn't have all that many cars, but the ones that were there were pretty good. Heavy on late 60's Chevelle types, but several traditional t-rods, trucks, and some 50's Chevys and Fords. Plus one Christine with a matching little pod camper and boat. And a horse show at the fairgrounds. Turns out Thermopolis is a pretty fun place, but the weather still sucks.
Did you go to the Mammoth Site near Hot Springs, SD?
It was once a steep banked watering hole where a couple hundred mammoths and various others animals took too big of a sip.
You get to go down into this once water hole filled with excavated and partially excavated fossils of tigers, bears and mammoths.
Trump: “We had the safest border in the history of our country - or at least recorded history. I guess maybe a thousand years ago it was even better.”
Did you go to the Mammoth Site near Hot Springs, SD?
It was once a steep banked watering hole where a couple hundred mammoths and various others animals took too big of a sip.
You get to go down into this once water hole filled with excavated and partially excavated fossils of tigers, bears and mammoths.
We haven't been to that one, but the site at Thermopolis is a similar type - former watering hole. And in Casper, we did see "Dee" the Mammoth.
