Saturday, April 30, 2011 - Sinclair WY
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Camped, Dugway Ramp Recreation Area, Sinclair WY, April 30, 2011
Snow
It snowed last night in Meeker CO and it's been a gray day with snow squalls off and on all day. Like yesterday, today took me much farther than I had hoped. I was on the lookout for a place to boondock all day and didn't see anything promising until I got here. This will do nicely for the night. It's not hugely picturesque but there is a river right outside my door. We like that.
North Platte River
Rand McNally tells me that's the North Platte River out there. That gives me an idea. I've been planning to follow the North Platte and Platte rivers across southern Nebraska on my way east. Why not start here and follow it as it makes its way up through Casper and around the bend to the east?
Birds
There are birds here. And a cliff with nests on it. I think I'll stay tomorrow, see what's here, get a few pictures, then head out Monday.
Night camp
Site 5 - Dugway Ramp Recreation Area, Sinclair WY
- Verizon cell phone and EVDO service - no service
- Locate Dugway Ramp Recreation Area on my Night Camps map
- Check the weather here
Others Choose the Path of Healing
The labor camp in Erfurt and, after the war, the refugee camp in Mainz were all I knew when I came here [from Germany] in 1947 at the age of seven. Like many camp survivors, it was not the experience itself that dogged me as much as the why of it. The why seems clearer every day: those who see themselves as victims, nations included, have license to commit these things. Others choose the path of healing.
Michael Guran, architect, in Jesse Monongya, Opal Bears and Lapis Skies by Lois Sherr Dubin