More catch upposts from the last week - starting with..... this predates the eclipse posting... just setting the scene a little.
We set up our eclipse camp. We are in a small town called Glenrock just east of Casper. Its right in the middle of the track and has a lot of scope for wide open spaces with clear blue skies to observe the Eclipse on Monday morning. The campsite is ok, its a slightly sorry affair really everything looks a bit 'overdue' and because we have been camping in state parks where everything is basic but tidy it looks a little shabby. But the owners / managers are extremely friendly and helpful though - which in my book goes a long way - there are no defined sites and no fire pits - a big disappointment, but they did rustle us up a picnic table and tomorrow they are serving biscuits and gravy for breakfast which is an American delicacy I have been wanting to try. update it was ok but looked a bit grim and was rather stodgy
there are deer roaming the camp which is quite nice
We had a little expedition into Casper - its quite a big place and parking was difficult as a lot of the roads were closed to traffic so they could have a pedestrian area with stalls and markets to party for the eclipse. Masses of merchandise - there must be a bout a 1000 different eclipse t shirt designs, I cant imagine they will sell them all. We had a wander about and the vibe was very party and fun and everyone wants to talk to you when they find out you are from the UK. Eventually after a coffee we headed to find the supermarket and the quilt shop- I am collecting these quilt patterns from various towns - its part of a global quilting initiative called Row by Row. The theme is 'on the go' and shops taking part design a predetermined sized piece of quilting and give out the pattern free so they can be collected and made up as individual sections and then joined together. I thought if I collected the patterns I could make them up in the long North Toggie evenings as a pleasant reminder of our trip.
there's loads of stuff going off but mainly aimed at kids and country music lovers so the chances of dragging Dr Fred there is remote. update as I suspected but we could hear a lot of music from the camp and it wasn't particularly promising... we didn't bother.
We set up our eclipse camp. We are in a small town called Glenrock just east of Casper. Its right in the middle of the track and has a lot of scope for wide open spaces with clear blue skies to observe the Eclipse on Monday morning. The campsite is ok, its a slightly sorry affair really everything looks a bit 'overdue' and because we have been camping in state parks where everything is basic but tidy it looks a little shabby. But the owners / managers are extremely friendly and helpful though - which in my book goes a long way - there are no defined sites and no fire pits - a big disappointment, but they did rustle us up a picnic table and tomorrow they are serving biscuits and gravy for breakfast which is an American delicacy I have been wanting to try. update it was ok but looked a bit grim and was rather stodgy
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We had a little expedition into Casper - its quite a big place and parking was difficult as a lot of the roads were closed to traffic so they could have a pedestrian area with stalls and markets to party for the eclipse. Masses of merchandise - there must be a bout a 1000 different eclipse t shirt designs, I cant imagine they will sell them all. We had a wander about and the vibe was very party and fun and everyone wants to talk to you when they find out you are from the UK. Eventually after a coffee we headed to find the supermarket and the quilt shop- I am collecting these quilt patterns from various towns - its part of a global quilting initiative called Row by Row. The theme is 'on the go' and shops taking part design a predetermined sized piece of quilting and give out the pattern free so they can be collected and made up as individual sections and then joined together. I thought if I collected the patterns I could make them up in the long North Toggie evenings as a pleasant reminder of our trip.
there's loads of stuff going off but mainly aimed at kids and country music lovers so the chances of dragging Dr Fred there is remote. update as I suspected but we could hear a lot of music from the camp and it wasn't particularly promising... we didn't bother.
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