Month: July 2025

Laramie

FYI Laramie is the 4th most populated city in Wyoming with 31,000 inhabitants, behind Cheyenne, Casper and Gillette. The entire state has less than 600,000 people. Also, Laramie is home to Wyoming’s only university, the University of Wyoming.

Everyone we go through Laramie we eat at Lovejoy’s. They are famous for their Sunshine Crunch (a Monte Cristo sandwich they fancify). I got the Buffalo Mac and cheese and it did not disappoint.
The Laramie fire dept kept the kids cool, though it was a lovely 72 degrees compared to the 80+s back home.
We spent a few hours at their Fourth of July festival, with vendors and food trucks and music.
Box of Rocks
Kona Shaved Ice. Guess the flavor?!
We stalked the pool for three hours wairing for it to be completely empty

Rocky Mountain NP

Weather was perfect last night and we all slept pretty well. Josie and I were up in the truck rent and Ed was in his ground tent.

Before this trip we added Super Pacific’s new Buzz Kill bug screen. We still have to affix the Velcro on the sides but we are excited about it. Bugs flying in when we opened it up to set up has been a huge issue for us.
I’m using a Blender Bottle to make my Everyday Dose mushroom coffee.
One of our biggest upgrades, the new mobile Starlink. It mounts right to the inside of our moon roof and works while we are driving and has worked perfectly through the night powered by our Ecoflow battery and drawing around 50% through the night

We hiked a bit around Bear Lake and Nymph lake but we’re all a bit tired still from our various travels out here so we wimped out a bit. We also did the big Trail Ridge Road drive.

Flight to Denver

Josie hasn’t flown since we went to Maui when she wasn’t even two years-old so flying with her was exciting. We had fun in the airport, as we were in an exclusive shopping mall for travelers only (and we hit up Dunkin, Auntie Anne’s and then Hudson News.)

The flight to Denver was rerouted twice while inflight, to avoid some serious storm activity in Denver. But the plane wasn’t fueled for such a roundabout route so we were diverted to Colorado Springs to refuel before heading to Denver. So Josie did get to experience two takeoffs and landings on that direct flight. The route got us into Denver several hours late and poor Ed had been in a cell phone lot watching the plane fly designs for hours. It was around 10pm Denver time when he got us (I think we were supposed to land around 6pm).

2025 Summer West

Ed left in the Raptor Friday evening and made it to Rocky Mountain NP by Saturday night. I haven’t enjoyed those long hauls as much as he has so we tweaked the plan a bit and Josie and I are flying to Denver Tuesday evening. Stay tuned. This is my warm-up post. We have the new mobile Starlink so we should pretty much have internet covered.