Monat: Juni 2017
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Wyoming 2017 – Bear Lodge Tower (Tag 4)
Today we made our first day trip, we went to the north-eastern part of Wyoming. Starting in Casper we passed by the infamous Teapot Dome Oil Field and the Salt Creek Oil Field nearby. Signs of oil production followed us many miles along the beautiful prairie until we reached the coal mines near Gillette. Heading…
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Wyoming 2017 – Casper und die Trails (Tag 3)
On our third day in Wyoming we got in touch with the history of this area, or in fact of a major part of the “wild west” of the US. In the “National Historic Trails Interpretive Center” of Casper we learned both about the Indians that lived in this area as well as about the…
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Wyoming 2017 – Casper im Schnee (Tag 2)
On our second day in Wyoming we learned that winter can come back almost any time! Although it was May 18th already a large snow front hit the area and brought almost 24 hours of snow. In Casper it was wet and mushy, but on Casper Mountain and other higher places it brought 1ft of…
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Wyoming 2017 – Casper und Umgebung (Tag 1)
So this was our first day in Wyoming. I have already written about this in a previous post and also added the slide show. However, this time I’m including an improved slide show with the title/description underneath the pictures. It was annoying to have it in the middle of the photos… Also some more details…
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Wyoming 2017 – Ankunft und Fahrt nach Casper
My plans about writing in this blog during our three weeks travel through Wyoming changed somewhat – we were on the road a lot, and the other days we visited family and friends, and our days were pretty full. So I’m going to start again with the day of our arrival and tell about our…