Traveling Back To Star Valley

 

We left Gillette and headed back to Star Valley. The Escapade had been all that it promised to be, new friends, new crafting classes, and even new stones for our collection! Equally important we had   revisited friends that we had met before in our travels.

The first challenge was to not get stuck in the Camplex mud. It had rained quite a bit and there had been some horror stories from a previous rally. However we pulled out onto the firm road without leaving any permanent ruts.

The first stretch of highway was from Gillette to Rawlins, Wyoming, a distance of about two hundred and fifty miles. Fighting a strong headwind our mileage dropped significantly and the low fuel light came on. As there is no place to fuel, and knowing that I had a ten gallon reserve, we made it to Rawlins with six gallons to spare. It was kind of funny really as we had planned better during our Alaska trip and had never had our fuel run so low.

Spending the night in Rawlins we headed out early, 7:30 am and stopped for medical supplies at the Wal-Mart in Rock Springs. After supporting the local economy, the rest of the drive went without incident and we only stopped at the pass into Star Valley.

Arriving at our place, our neighbors stopped by and it will be nice to be in one place for the rest of this summer. Our fall plans have firmed as we did get an email for our factory repairs in Indiana,( October 14^th,) so now we can turn our attention to fishing, rock hounding, lapidary, and a few shows in the area.

Clear skies