Recently we traveled east, clear across the state of Wyoming, to get a load of hay.
We also viewed Devil’s Tower, America’s first national monument. For Ruby, the big rock coming out of the ground was the only reason she was on the trip.
The highlight of the 15 hour trip was meeting the hay man’s ranch kids.
Ruby had the grandest time running and playing with them and their new puppy.
They are homeschooled too. Their nearest school is 30 miles away and has three students. In their neck of the openness, they have mail delivery to their house three times a week. Those kids get up, Monday through Saturday, around 6am, do their chores, come in to eat breakfast around 6:45, go back and finish their chores, and come back to work on schoolwork around 7:30am. They finish up their school work by lunch, have some free time, then they to do ranch work until evening supper. They are in bed around 7 to 8pm in the evening. They were excited to have company and when we were leaving told us it was a “good visit”. They disappeared behind the hay to go gather up some horses over the nearby ridge.
We had another 8 ½ hour drive back over the mountains.
It takes a little longer with a fully loaded trailer. I think our top speed going over the mountains was 25mph. From what we can tell, the Big Horns still have about 3 feet of snow, we got more snow this weekend, so there’s more up there now.
All in all, it was a good visit.
