Said goodbye to the Econo Lodge in Lincoln:
A little over an hour later I stopped at a gas station for coffee. They were right next to the Mormon Island State Recreation Area, which is a lovely little park/camping area:
An hour later I was at the Museum of Nebraska Art (MONA) in Kearney, Nebraska:
They have a very nice collection, including pieces by Frederic Remington (a bronze - "The Cheyenne"), Thomas Moran, John Kensett, Sanford Robinson Gifford, Albert Bierstadt, Alfred Jacob Miller, and Thomas Worthington Whittredge.
John Frederick Kensett - "Untitled (landscape with waterfall and mountain)", 1855 oil:
Thomas Moran - "Untitled (landscape)", n.d. oil:
Then back out on the Nebraska highway:
I passed the exit I took to watch the Total Eclipse on Aug. 21, 2017 (IT WAS SO TOTALLY COOL):
No, I'm not going down to Denver - I'm staying on 80 West:
When I crossed over the Wyoming border, I stopped at an information kiosk, and got a text from Caroline that they were in Rawlins, heading east:
It looks like WE CAN MEET IN LARAMIE!
I got there at 3 PM:
and Caroline and Deede got there TWO MINUTES LATER:
Hugs and kisses all around, and I gave them some of Ellie's cookies!
My next stop in Laramie was the Univ. of Wyoming Art Museum:
Wendy and I had visited here Oct. 3, 2016 - The Bierstadt ("In the Tetons") is still there, and it was great seeing two bronzes by Frederic Remington:
"The Rattlesnake":
"The Bronco Buster":
I have always loved Remington's pieces. I may be wrong, but a long time ago (the Lower was torn down our Sixth-Form year), I remember a bronze, which I like to think was a Remington, was in the ground floor. We passed it every day to-and-from our dorm alcoves up on the 2nd and 3rd floors. I wonder what ever happened to it?
Yeah, it is pretty "wide open" in Wyoming:
Big rains off to my right:
And then it cleared:
Then I left I-80, and headed north on 191. With the setting sun on my left, I saw a beautiful rainbow on my right:
Checked in at the Gannett Peak Lodge in Pinedale, Wyoming at 8 PM:
Dinner at the Wind River Brewing Company: Steak, baked potato, a big glass of milk, "Men In Black" on the SyFy channel, then lights out at 10. Well, wasn't that a FUN DAY! Thank you God for this wonderful adventure day!
I like starting the morning off listening to books-on-tape. William Gibson (my sci-fi author from last year's trip) wrote another trilogy (known as the Blue Ant trilogy [Hubertus Bigend]): Pattern Recognition (2003), Spook Country (2007), and Zero History (2010). Today I continued with "Pattern Recognition", cd 3:
Then Music for today was albums from an mp3 cd I burned back in 2000:
Dave Mason - Alone Together, 1970 debut album
Jackson Browne - Running on Empty, 1977 live album
Um, needless to say, this is a GREAT album for a road trip. All the songs were written and recorded on-the-road.
lyrics "Running on Empty":
Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels
Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields
Bruce Cockburn - "Stealing Fire", 1984
Paul Simon - Still Crazy After All These Years, 1975
Well, that's one way to look at it.
Bob Seger - The Distance, 1982
lyrics: "Even Now"
There's a highway
A lonesome stretch of gray
It runs between us
And takes me far away
Out in the distance
Always within reach
Theres a crossroad
Where all the victims meet
I close my eyes
And see her face
It's all I want to see
And deep inside
It still amazes me
lyrics: "Roll Me Away"
Took a look down a westbound road,
right away I made my choice
Headed out to my big two-wheeler,
I was tired of my own voice
Took a bead on the northern plains
and just rolled that power on
...
Stood alone on a mountain top,
starin' out at the Great Divide
I could go east, I could go west,
it was all up to me to decide
Just then I saw a young hawk flyin'
and my soul began to rise
And pretty soon
My heart was singin'
[Maybe his best/greatest song.]
Neil Young - Time Fades Away, 1973 live album
Jethro Tull - Benefit, 1970
Jefferson Airplane - Volunteers, 1969
Joni Mitchell - Wild Things Run Fast, 1982
switched cds
Benny Goodman - Greatest Hits, this is a 1977 cd, but the music is from the late 1930's/early 1940's
Buffalo Springfield - Bluebird - THE LONG VERSION, 1967 officially unreleased
A Chorus Line, 1976 Broadway cast album
I saw this show in the Fall of 1976.
Evita, 1969
I saw this show, with Patti LuPone (well, with Wendy, but Patti Lupone was in the play), in 1979.
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