Just got back from 10 days on the road, delivering my oldest son to Wyoming Catholic College. I have never been west of the Mississippi except one business trip to San Francisco some 25 years ago. Some impressions of seeing more of this country: You wouldn't believe the number of pro-life billboards in (most especially) Missouri. Boy they grow those rivers wide in the midwest: the Tennesse, the Ohio, the Missouri, and the Mississippi. Nebraska may look flat, but going east to west on route 80 is one long, long uphill trek. The flat land of Lander Wyoming is higher elevation than going over the Great Smokey Mountains of Tennesse. There is way too much corn being grown. Saw not a single hog in the "hog states" of Iowa, Southern Illinois, Missouri, and Nebraska.
Between Laramie, WY/Rawlins, WY and Lander, WY is truly the badlands-sagebrush and desert. While there are three towns listed on the map (Muddy Gap, Jeffrey City, and Sweetwater) they don't appear in person. One consists of a single restaurant, one sports a single liquor store, and I'm not sure the other exists at all. Certainly, load up your gas tank, cause there is NO place between Rawlins and Lander to buy gas.
I really like what I saw at Wyoming Catholic College. It seems to me that the staff and professors have the right stuff.
A couple more weeks and we do it all again for son number two at the College of St. Mary Magdalen in NH.
Oremus pro invicem!
2 comments:
Great to see the boys are on the move. Will be sad to see them go i am sure. We are loving Chile. We missed the return flight and are happy we did, as we will not be coming back. Tell the boys we said hey!
Hope you got this we still have sketchy internet.
Jim Dorchak
I'd love to hear more about Chile.
What are you doing for pork down there?
Missing you all.
Jim
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