Originally Posted By fkurucz is the University of Wyoming. Its so well funded that its cheaper for Colorado residents to attend UW than CSU or CU: <a href="http://www.coloradoan.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060828/NEWS01/608280325/1002" target="_blank">http://www.coloradoan.com/apps /pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060828/NEWS01/608280325/1002</a>
Originally Posted By YourPalEd I'm on my way! It'll give me a summer home and a change from austin. All these artists and intellectuals bought by the rich republicans, are neither. The utensils do not matter, the secrets do not matter, it is the chef, that matters when you want your food to be delicious.
Originally Posted By fkurucz >>I'm on my way! It'll give me a summer home and a change from austin.<< Have you ever been in Laramie? It ain't Austin compadre. If UW wasn't located there, the town would be little more than a truck stop.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 My daughter had a friend a year older than her in high school, who was really into, pickup truck, country music and horse riding ( for Chicago that is not common) - and she went to the University of Wyoming -- for one semester -- she was bored out of her gourd and returned to go to school at U of I. Now granted that may not be enough time to judge, but it is the only contact I have ever had with Wyoming.
Originally Posted By fkurucz I once worked in Laramie for 18 months (a long commute). There was no way we would move to Laramie. The town is decrepit (crumbling sidewalks, etc.). Other than UW there were a handful of decent employers in town. Everyone else was dirt poor. Quite a contrast between the haves and have nots. >> she was bored out of her gourd<< Laramie is quite a bit higher than Fort Collins (about 7500 ft IIRC). The winters are much colder in Laramie. I remember mornings pulling into the office when it was -20F. Below zero was quite common.
Originally Posted By Lake Nona >>Laramie is quite a bit higher than Fort Collins (about 7500 ft IIRC). The winters are much colder in Laramie. I remember mornings pulling into the office when it was -20F. Below zero was quite common.<< Yup... Brokeback Mtn.
Originally Posted By YourPalEd is laramie on the 40 or the 10? The 40 something right? I stopped there once. I think it was my trip in '83, coming from northwestern u., outside chicago, to los angeles. It might have been the car trip from my folks in tampa, or dunedin, on the 10. Anyway, a truck started honking at me at 4 in the a.m., cause i was falling asleep and swerving. I was still going 75, and making good time, i had been up 20 hours. I drank a lot more coffee than i do now, if you can believe it. The truck pulled up parellel to me, but i had already decided from his last long blast on his horn, that i would finally pull over in laramie for the night, and not go one more town. The truck drier motioned me to roll down my window, so i did. "You're swerving," he yelled at me. I yelled back, "I'm going to the next group of hotels. Thank you very much." The guy still didn't look too happy, and said some one word comment like, "Well" I think he said be carefull, was the last thing, and he pullled on ahead, but he waited. He stayed ahead, and i pulled off at larmie. I gave two taps, and he honked twice back. I vaguely remember seeing laramie for the first time. There was a train track, and a train station on the east side, and on the opposite side of the tracks was a parellel street to the tracks, lined with a row of hotels. Of course, i remembered from my american history lessons, that laramie had sprung up over night, because of the cattle herders. The british cattle herders would let their herds roam, and eat. When it came time for them to be sold and slaughtered, however, they needed to be shipped back alive to chicago, and from there to new york, where the large populations, and large populations of cow eaters, lived. The sick conditions of the chicago slaughter houses are well documented, but still the cattle had to get there, and in those days without trucks, and highways, they used trains. When the train tracks first went across the u.s. it brought sears and roebucks catalogues. If you watch the movie Shane, the director, robert wise, stops the film for a second, to show you a sears and roebucks catalogue. The reason he does this, is not just historical accuracy, he is telling you this is their pc computer. This is the latest in everything avaliable to these people on the edge of society, in the wild west of 1860's. A blizzard wipped out a lot of cattle, i think it was 1860 or 61, and instead of herding them north to the train stations. The ceo's of the train industries, all brits by the way, hee hee, they made a track that went south to where the herd was, so as never to be bothered by snow again, or at least not as much. Towns overnight sprung up around where large cattle herds were, or a convient spot to bring them. Laramie was one of these towns. I got a very inexpensive room for the night. At 4 in the morning i didn't see one other person besides the desk clerk. For some reason i was a little nervous. There was an open window in the bathroom, i remember, and i blocked it with something, i think i got a piece of wood i had out of the car. I drank in those days, had a beer went to sleep. Laramie was great. I think i had a donut and coffee from the front desk. Hopped on an empty highway, and was on my way. I think i saw a sherif, but i always follow the speed limit. I prefer 65 but i think it was 75 or 70. I put in a sgt. peppers cassette, and cruised home to los angeles.
Originally Posted By fkurucz >>is laramie on the 40 or the 10? The 40 something right?<< Its at the intersection of I80 and US 287. I40 and I10 run through New Mexico and Arizona (much further south). I70 runs through Colorado and Utah.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip <<I40 and I10 run through New Mexico>> It's pretty easy to confuse New Mexico with Wyoming... the landscape looks much the same in some places. The best way to tell them apart is the people. New Mexico has hippies. Wyoming has rednecks. I think Ed would like New Mexico better.
Originally Posted By fkurucz >>It's pretty easy to confuse New Mexico with Wyoming<< Trust me, it gets much, much colder in Laramie than in Santa Fe. Its very common for I80 to be shut down due to blizzard conditions. The have preinstalled highway barriers for closing I80 when this happens. There are also signs warning that if you ignore the barriers and proceed that no one will come and rescue you if you get stuck!!
Originally Posted By fkurucz >> The best way to tell them apart is the people. New Mexico has hippies. Wyoming has rednecks.<< Also, New Mexico is heavily hispanic, Wyoming is not. Wyoming is also the least populated state in the country, 400,000 total IIRC. That's about 1/10 of Orange Co, CA.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip <<Trust me, it gets much, much colder in Laramie than in Santa Fe.>> Yea... I know Wyoming and New Mexico are pretty different. I just didn't want folks thinking that Ed was confused about highways because he'd swallowed the bong water or something. I also trust you about the cold. My boss used to work for the University of Wyoming. He says that Laramie is colder than Minnesota. That's cold!!
