Day 31 – July 28, 2003

Homeward Bound

Ride from Moorefield, Nebraska to Denver Colorado

We left my brothers place this morning after a few stare downs with his dogs. We left around 7 am and the rain started around 7:30 am. We hadn’t gotten past the first town when it hit. Fortunately it only lasted about an hour and didn’t rain hard. We had on our gear, so didn’t get wet much and were dry by the time we got to North Platte. Even though I had been there before, I didn’t know that Buffalo Bill had been born and is ranch was there. This is the first time I had actually seen a tourist trap in its original form. I also found the store fronts around there interesting.

The terrain around here is still pretty flat, you can tell because there a lot of trains out here, they are long, and you can see the entire length of the train, but by the time we get to Wyoming, it is starting to show signs of the mountains coming back. Then out of the blue, here come da clouds again. Fortunately we were able to go around them and only got a few drops.

As we pass the outskirts of Cheyenne and I see the capitol dome, I remember that this is where I was born. I was raised only about 50 miles from here in Laramie, but we decide to head south toward Denver so that we can shorten the trip a little more for sake of time and Karen’s foot.

Just before we get to Denver, we pass the Budweiser plant and I am reminded that it as well as Coors are from around here. Then I see the most unusual business building I have seen in a long time and all made from glass.

We may spend another day around here as well, because this was where my miss-spent teen years were passed. When I get back on the road tomorrow or the next day, I may have to skirt the byways……