We are in Caspar, Wyoming for the next few days. When we travel we sometimes make up nicknames for locations. We have been know to refer to New Mexico as the billboard state as there are stretches of some of the interstates that are miles and miles of billboards. For Wyoming we now call it the windy state. We drove straight up I25 coming from Colorado and it was a constant blowing wind. In fact they have digital signs all along I25 with wind warnings, most said 40MPH gust but I don’t consider them gust when it is non stop wind. We could feel it moving the motor coach and see it blowing other vehicles around. We got set up at the RV park and relaxed the rest of the day. Went to the museum the next day and when we returned to the RV park the wind had really picked up. It got so bad during the night that Bruce closed our big slide out because the wind was blowing straight into it and causing the slide out cover to really flap hard. He got it closed and then closed the small awning over the steps and was headed out to close the awnings over the windows on the large slide out. One of the straps broke loose before he got to them and that awning slammed shut, the smaller one he got to before the strap broke. We will have to get a new strap put on when we get home.
The wind kept up all night long and I stayed up most of the night as the movement and sound bothered me. On Sunday morning it eased off a little but did not die down until late Sunday afternoon. We just stayed in all day, watching the trees out the windows. Attempted to watch our church service online but it cut out during the middle of the service, must have been something at the church because we could connect to everything else.
We had planned on going to a few more locations while in the area, an old fort and Independence Rock State Historic Site (it is a giant rock formation where many of the old wagons trains passed and people carved their names in the rock) but decided to just rest on Monday.
Headed on north Tuesday morning.