Travel back to Wyoming - Evanston

After a great stay in Utah, we headed West today (and a little north) to go back into Wyoming. Pretty drive, half on local roads, half on Rt80 where we got to play with lots of trucks. We pulled into Phillips RV park in Evanston right around noon. We were set up 30 minutes later and cooked lunch in the camper.

The next adventure was a bike ride from the RV park to Bear River State park, where they have Bison (including white bison) and Elk in pastures, and Bear River which runs right through the park. We stopped at the visitors center, got a trail map, and then peddled up the ridge to look down in the valley and…… see lightning and hear thunder! Well that cut the trip short. Dan was pretty sure it wasn’t going to hit us, but it wasn’t worth the risk to leave Melissa out in the rain on a bicycle. Been there, done that, and it’s not at all fun for either of us!

We rushed back to the camper just in time for it to NOT RAIN, but it was windy. Since it was dry out, we did a trial run of getting the bicycles inside the trailer. Melissa thinks they will be much safer inside the camper, than outside with just a cable lock to keep them out of the hands of thieves. Shouldn’t be too bad if we take the front wheels off, which luckily, Dan has plenty of bike tools with us.

After about 30 min of wind, the sun came out, and we went for a walk in Bear Paw park (not to be confused with the state park). We actually rode through it when we were going to the state park. It is a lovely park that surrounds the banks of the Bear river as it goes near town.

We walked in the historic downtown area, a little too late to shop, but still nice to get a feel for the history of the town. Apparently, there is a lot of train history here. There is a major rail line that runs along side of Rt 80, and there used to be a round house here and there is a sizable rail yard. Trains in this part of the country tend to be long, like 2 miles long.

Eating through leftovers for dinner and then an early night. We will need to get moving early tomorrow as we have to be in Salt Lake City at the windshield replacement place, with the camper disconnected by 9am, and we are estimating a 2 hour drive.Read more