Fort Bridger

[Peter_Suciu]

I was near Gus country, well sort of. As a former resident of New York City I was lead to believe that everything west of the Mississippi was Gus country. But last week my father and I helped my sister and brother-in-law move from Hippie Land (San Francisco) to Mountain Hippie Land (Boulder, Colorado). So that meant driving a truck through Wyoming. We stopped in at Fort Bridger. Here are some photos I snapped with my BlackBerry.

 

[J.LeBrasseur]

very cool, I love the western museums.

James

 

[Larmo]

Oh the drums would roll, upon my soul,
This is the style we’d go,
Forty miles a day, on beans and hay,
In the Regular Army, O.

But twas out upon the Yellowstone,
we had the damndest time,
Faith, we made the trip wid “Rosebud George”
six months without a dime.

Some eighteen hundred miles we went,
through hunger, mud, and rain.
Wid backs all bare, and rations rare,
no chance for grass or grain.

Wid bunkies starvin’ by our side,
no rations was the rule;
Sure twas ate your boots and saddles, you brutes,
but feed the packer and the mule.

But you know full well that in your fights,
no soldier lad was slow,
And it wasn’t the packer that won ye a [general’s] star,
In the Regular Army, O.

Great old song lyrics of the Frontier Army...

Excelsior

Larmo

 

[Gustaf]

I've been through there a time or two delivering bulls, but you must have used my type of navigation to go through Wyoming to get to Boulder from San Fransicko.
Best
Gus

 

[Peter_Suciu]

I've been through there a time or two delivering bulls, but you must have used my type of navigation to go through Wyoming to get to Boulder from San Fransicko.

I thought the same thing about the wacky route, but this took us on I-85 to I-25 and the climb through the Continential Divide wasn't so bad this way. We had a 26-foot truck, the largest you can get without a special license. There is a more direct route but it isn't recommended with large trucks.

The irony is that with 300+ helmets, all my DVDs, books, large HDTV, home theater stuff and a dozen computers I had the movers move me from NYC to Michigan in ONE 24-foot truck.

My brother-in-law required one 26-foot truck and one 16-foot truck, and that was AFTER he drove out with my sister in a jeep with a trailer. Of course my sister has 100+ pairs of shoes, my brother-in-law has three dozen mini-helicopters, airplanes and R/C cars, 20+ bikes and a bunch of other stuff. It was unbelievable. My father and I said we'll never help them again.

I warned my brother-in-law too that I'm not staying in Michigan forever. I'll be moving to Texas or Nevada in a couple of years! Then he can drive my helmets and guns! OH YEAH!