Open carry vacation to Wyoming, day 3
Howdy!
We had a good day, we were a little sleepy, came back to the hotel early, are still recovering from two days of 12-hour drives.
First things, first, went to Gillette Wal-Mart. Open carried, no problem.
Debra Jean says “Don’t mess with an armed woman buying tampons!”
Went to Devil’s Tower. Couldn’t open carry inside, so didn’t go in. But the whole place is lovely!
DJ went into The Country Store just down the street. Open carried, no problem.
Saw ANTELOPE on the way back! Yay, Antelope!:
Had open-carry lunch with some incredibly cool folks, new friends, in Hulett at Ponderosa. (Great food!)
Close-up of above photo. I have two guns, I’m holding DJ’s while she goes into the post office across the street:
Shootin’ a .223 mini-14 at a wonderful public range with our very cool new friends:
Stopped in Sundance for dinner at the Subway, we open carried, no problem.
Back at the hotel. Why are hotel hallways always decorated like a schizophrenic’s nightmare? (DJ’s theory: it’s to keep you from loitering in the hallways so you’ll stay in your room like good little caged bunnies.)
All in all we had a wonderful, mellow, happy day. There was a tornado today in Wyoming, but not near us.
Gonna hit the whirlpool and relax. We love Wyoming! (and “Red Dawn” is on TV right now. How cool is THAT??? WOLVERINES!!!!!!)
(More tomorrow, tune in then!)
MWD
June 5th, 2009 at 6:49 pm
That carpet is giving me a headache. And I’ve been inside the Devil’s Tower park. There’s not much to see there that you can’t see from the outside.
June 5th, 2009 at 7:32 pm
I’ve been there too. It’s where I fell in love with prairie dogs. They’re so cute. Nature’s version of a whack-a-mole game.
June 5th, 2009 at 7:35 pm
that exact spot, or Wyoming? That spot has a hysterical marker (historical marker) about “Mama Sage.”
MWD
June 5th, 2009 at 7:35 pm
They ARE like a wackamole game. It’s really really cute.
June 5th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
I’ve been to the Devil’s Tower site. I have pictures somewhere of me standing in about the same spot for the picture.
June 6th, 2009 at 2:01 am
lovely blog and photos. makes me want to consider doing my postgrad in wyoming, it’s so beautiful there. but i’d probably have to start eating meat again…. mmm, ponderosa!
June 6th, 2009 at 5:23 am
R.B., you’d love it here.
Last night in the hotel we listened to and watched the most intense and beautiful thunderstorm we’ve ever seen in our lives.
MWD
June 6th, 2009 at 8:39 am
Open carry vacation, OMG! Funny, I was just flying back from LA to Paris and we flew over Devils Tower and I was thinking about it and little did I know that you guys were down there open carrying.
June 6th, 2009 at 11:07 am
They really are like a wackamole game to us locals . . . or maybe more like a WHACK a mole game. Then of course there’s WHACK an antelope . . .
They may be cute, but as mentioned yesterday, livestock break their legs if they step in their burrows, and they carry diseases which can easily be transmitted to humans and other animals via fleas if they get too close. Bubonic Plague is a favorite, best to enjoy the little buggers from a distance, as is the case with most wildlife.
Glad to see you’re having a good time, even with the thunderstorms. I used to have a neat story about a couple from California that moved to this part of the country, and were absolutely enchanted with the pristine beauty of each individual snowflake . . . at first. It gets funnier after that. I’ll see if I can find it and email it to you, I think you’d get a kick out of it.
Later Deans,
Mr Q
June 6th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
The carpet is like that to hide the stains. Hotel get a lot of stains.
You’re makin’ me jealous. Sally and I don’t get our turn till September, and actually moving is still X years away. Working frantically to make X as low a number as possible. The good thing about you getting there first is you can help us move
June 6th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
Kyle,
We would be glad to help.
MWD
June 22nd, 2009 at 6:00 pm
I am grinning like an idiot at these pics. I’m way bummed we didn’t get to make it out there for the get-together.