The Time Has Come

[Rightguide]

Well good folks, Sunday I'm off on another exploration of the terra ignota in the vast openest of our great American west. Our main interest will be a month long exploration of old American Indian trails and village sites based on a collection of historical writings, military maps, and Army expedition reports. We'll start at Fort Robinson in western Nebraska and continue West across the southern half of Wyoming towards South Pass and then turn North for Pinedale and the Wind River range to immerse ourselves in the history of the general area. Hopefully I'll have enough time to visit a site I missed a couple of years ago in the Unita Mountains south of Fort Bridger before heading for home. Should be lots of beautiful photographic opportunities along the way as well. I should be back to pester Algo and the rest of the left by the end of October or early November. Enjoy the respite.

 

[Ann_Tagonist]

Well good folks, Sunday I'm off on another exploration of the terra ignota in the vast openest of our great American west. Our main interest will be a month long exploration of old American Indian trails and village sites based on a collection of historical writings, military maps, and Army expedition reports. We'll start at Fort Robinson in western Nebraska and continue West across the southern half of Wyoming towards South Pass and then turn North for Pinedale and the Wind River range to immerse ourselves in the history of the general area. Hopefully I'll have enough time to visit a site I missed a couple of years ago in the Unita Mountains south of Fort Bridger before heading for home. Should be lots of beautiful photographic opportunities along the way as well. I should be back to pester Algo and the rest of the left by the end of October or early November. Enjoy the respite.

Are you taking the vette?

 

[suurfer]

Lit. will be more boring without your posts.

Sounds like a great adventure & intellectual stimulation.
Never felt any pull since I emigrated; they're not part of My history.

 

[Aglaopheme]

Well good folks, Sunday I'm off on another exploration of the terra ignota in the vast openest of our great American west. Our main interest will be a month long exploration of old American Indian trails and village sites based on a collection of historical writings, military maps, and Army expedition reports. We'll start at Fort Robinson in western Nebraska and continue West across the southern half of Wyoming towards South Pass and then turn North for Pinedale and the Wind River range to immerse ourselves in the history of the general area. Hopefully I'll have enough time to visit a site I missed a couple of years ago in the Unita Mountains south of Fort Bridger before heading for home. Should be lots of beautiful photographic opportunities along the way as well. I should be back to pester Algo and the rest of the left by the end of October or early November. Enjoy the respite.

Sounds like quite the adventure! Enjoy. I shall try not to miss you too much.

 

[OldJourno]

Uinta Mountains. That's a common error.
I'm familiar with the area, but more so with Fort Laramie, which will probably be on the early part of your itinerary.
Better bring some warm clothing, especially for the Pinedale area. Beautiful country, but this time of year every part of your journey is susceptible to snowstorms, though the stuff won't linger on the ground for any amount of time.
I love Western Nebraska and Wyoming, but there are three reasons I don't live there: Fall, winter and spring.

 

[Kantarii]

Don’t waste your time looking for Fauxcahantas on the campaign trail. That would ruin a nice vacation. Besides, I heard she wasn’t really an Indian.

 

[Rightguide]

Are you taking the vette?

Uh, no...I don't have a vette. I'm taking my truck

 

[RichardBentwood]

Awesome. Sounds like fun

 

[thør]

Enjoy the trip.

 

[Rightguide]

Lit. will be more boring without your posts.

Sounds like a great adventure & intellectual stimulation.
Never felt any pull since I emigrated; they're not part of My history.

Thanks, I appreciate that.

I understand, but the history aside, it's still some of the most beautiful country in America.

I spend every working moment behind a desk engaged in the modern hum drum of the here and now, but have always admired, in our past, the simple lives and punishing work it took to simply exist. Where every minute of every day was spent in contemplation of the defense of one's mortality. Whether it be the the noble savage in his nomadic quest to be left alone to follow the Buffalo, the adventurous prospector who'd rather be scalped than be poor, traipsing the "big Lonesome' forever seduced by the music of Midas, The weathered soldier in the deadly shadow of the Big Horns guarding the the soon to be abandoned Montana Road as his Washington superiors re-think the direction of their manifest destiny.

It was same for all in the west. They were a much stronger and committed people. Their bones are in the land, our land. We should be grateful that we can walk on the ground laid down by those who went before us, the same land all Americans will in their time become part of, to the wonder of our progeny.

 

[Rightguide]

Enjoy the trip.

Thanks Thor. I'll spend most of the day hoping I won't forget something.

 

[thør]

Thanks Thor. I'll spend most of the day hoping I won't forget something.

It's not like you won't pass by a store on the way.

 

[Rightguide]

Sounds like quite the adventure! Enjoy. I shall try not to miss you too much.

Thanks, but I think you'll be alright.

 

[Counselor706]

Enjoy your trip, Rightguide.

 

[bellisarius]

Uinta Mountains. That's a common error.
I'm familiar with the area, but more so with Fort Laramie, which will probably be on the early part of your itinerary.
Better bring some warm clothing, especially for the Pinedale area. Beautiful country, but this time of year every part of your journey is susceptible to snowstorms, though the stuff won't linger on the ground for any amount of time.
I love Western Nebraska and Wyoming, but there are three reasons I don't live there: Fall, winter and spring.

Very similar to the three reasons I won't ever live on the Great Plains again, Winter, Spring, Summer.

 

[Rightguide]

Uinta Mountains. That's a common error.
I'm familiar with the area, but more so with Fort Laramie, which will probably be on the early part of your itinerary.
Better bring some warm clothing, especially for the Pinedale area. Beautiful country, but this time of year every part of your journey is susceptible to snowstorms, though the stuff won't linger on the ground for any amount of time.
I love Western Nebraska and Wyoming, but there are three reasons I don't live there: Fall, winter and spring.

That was a typo, thanks for pointing it out though. I'm taking a gamble with the timing. I wanted to see it in the splendor of fall colors. It seems this year is a little slow in making the change due to warm weather in the west but now there are some fall colors at higher altitudes. I'm rolling the dice on the weather. Been to Fort Laramie a few times, great place to begin a trip focused on the Oregon Trail. The road from Pinedale back into the Wind River Range can be a bitch too even if it isn't snowing, at times between gradings it's twenty plus miles of washboard if you know what I mean.

 

[Rightguide]

Enjoy your trip, Rightguide.

Thanks, I appreciate it.

 

[Rightguide]

It's not like you won't pass by a store on the way.

I'd hate to forget one of my cameras and have to buy one of those on the way.

 

[Kantarii]

Is there any one particular thing you’d like to see on your trip above all else?

 

[doowdniw]

Uh, no...I don't have a vette. I'm taking my truck

Really get into it and go by oxen-drawn covered wagon.

 

[Conager]

May the wind be at your back and the ground rise to meet you. . .

 

[carlos1of2inher]

Have a meaningful trip

My wife and I recently took a driving vacation out west and went to several national parks and other natural wonders that we had not visited in many years. One thing we noticed was that there were more people everywhere and many seemed like something was wrong with them. Their grooming and attitudes were disturbing. It is sad to see the social decay that years of liberal agenda have already brought to the USA. What is going on in parts of CA is tragic. Cities that were once tourist destinations are now cluttered with drug addicted people that defecate and urinate in public and just leave it on the streets. I hope your travels spare you some of that but when you get back let us know if you see anything that explains why some people are working toward making this land great again.

 

[Biggs_Darklighter]

Vette used to go on trips like that all the time, too. Huh.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Are you taking the vette?

https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/017/204/CaptainAmerica1_zps8c295f96.JPG

I wonder if his Members Only jacket still fits?

 

[Rightguide]

Is there any one particular thing you’d like to see on your trip above all else?

There are a couple of Indian village sites found by a friend of mine I want to see along with a couple of places along the Oregon trail as well. Generally. I just enjoy being in the region and seeing it in the Fall.