Winter Comes to Wyoming

Kaycee, Wyoming. October 12, 2008

Within about 48 hours, our quiet haven in Wyoming went from balmy to blizzard! It began as rain, then changed to sleet and finally big fat white snowflakes. One of those storms that close highways in Wyoming.


Now to be honest, I really wanted to be farther south somewhere when this happened in Wyoming. Because it not only snowed, it got very cold. And I will admit that my concept of 'very cold' has changed over the last year of traveling through the South in the winter. Montana winters, like Wyoming's can easily see 20 or 30 degrees below zero. It wasn't that cold. Nevertheless, my poor RV had huge icicles hanging off her nose!


Thank goodness my brother-in-law knows about "winterizing" RV's and helped me drain her plumbing and pour some pink stuff in her tanks to keep them from freezing up.

But she shivered nonetheless, as you can imagine. She did spend two winters in Montana, so this was not totally foreign to her, but she was in hibernation those two winters, all drained and made snug and secure in her own little piece of the driveway. The car is my "toad", newly purchased this year to be "towed" behind my RV. She was a Spokane Washington car in her former life and blizzards were not unknown to her, either, but I did make some promises about being in Mississippi this winter . . .


I think we had half a foot of snow piled up before it stopped.




Here's the view from my sister's living room. Well, it is pretty, in that Christmas nostalgia sort of way.


Before long, the sun returned and I had an opportunity for some lovely contrast photos of the white fields and blue skies. Days like these are very energizing, as any ski enthusiast will agree. This is east-central Wyoming from Kaycee to Casper.


In spite of Wyoming's winter beauty, I NEED to go South!