Category Archives: 106-Wyoming 2016

Tate Geologic Museum – Dee the mammoth!

While heading north from Colorado to Glacier Natl Park, we were planning a one-night stop in Casper, WY.  But, we learned about a museum at the college in Casper that had some real good geologic and dinasaur exhibits, so we added a day to our stay in Casper to visit it.

It was a real good museum!  Small, but packed with good exhibits and fossils from every geologic age on the planet.  In addition, there was a mostly intact mamoth fossil that had been completed using casts and assembled in the middle of the museum room.  It was HUGE!!  The backhoe operator from an oil rig company hit something in the dirt while digging for an oil rig, and could tell that they were old bones.  So, he got his supervisor, who got the owner of the company and the owner of the land involved, and they contacted the museum.  They agreed to move the oil rig being assembled and a team came and dug out the fossil.

It’s called Dee because the backhoe operator was named Dee!

Sorry, no pictures, but if you go to their website you’ll see lots of good information. Here’s a link to the museum website: www.caspercollege.edu/tategeologicalmuseum.

More tire trouble!

We’ve been on the road for almost 4 years now (retired for 5, but we didn’t travel for a year to care for a family member) and have had 4 trailer tires lose their tread on the road. One with disastrous results as it caused damage to our trailer that took a month to repair while we stayed at a motel in a small town in Vermont.  Here’s a blog entry about that: click here.

We’ve purchased good new tires, never used or retread. But, they just don’t last. We’ve had one tire get a nail in it, and once we caused it by cutting a corner sorry and running over a border rock with a protrusion, but 4 times the tread has just come off.

Luckily we have always had AAA so they’ve sent a tow truck out to change our tire. A few times we’ve been out in the middle of nowhere and have had to wait hours for a tow truck. Yesterday was the 4th tread problem and we were in southern Wyoming without any cell service either!  A nice man pulled over and asked if we were ok so we were able to use his cell phone to call AAA. I told them we didn’t have a phone so don’t try to give us a status, just send someone! They actually called the highway patrol and an officer came by to tell us a truck was on the way. That was nice!  Still, we had been waiting 2 hours. The previous time when we had a nail we waited over 3 hours, in 95 degree heat with the truck facing the sun…Ugh!!

So, when on the road with your home behind your vehicle, expect some trouble, and have AAA for sure. And, make sure your coverage includes RV!