The Wild Horses of Wyoming and One Last Tank of Gas to Close This Adventure Out!

Bam and just like that welcome back. We are in or just outside of Green River, Wyoming and there's like 50 mile an hour wind gusting by. Got Lindsay to her wild horses. She's off tracking them down right now with her camera. I don't know how she's not getting blown over because she's small. She's a little she's lower to the ground than I am. I'm scared to death of going outside because I think I'm gonna get knocked over every time a gust of wind comes by. That's just how it is I guess that this part of Wyoming in springtime. It's in the southern part of the state. We are about three hours from Thermopolis so we're not terribly far. But guess what's coming our way? Snowstorm. Yeah crazy. We bring the bad weather wherever we go. So the one thing we try to avoid at all costs when we travel is snow. We're from Florida. We hate snow. It's not even pretty anymore. Well okay it's pretty. It was pretty yesterday but we just need to see it once every two or three years and that's good. But now it's gonna snow in the next little bit and so we're gonna be staying here one night. We're on a dirt road. We've already done the dirt road with the mud and the snow yesterday. That was no fun. Two to three miles in reverse to get off the dirt road in the mud. So we're gonna stay here while it's bright and sunny and windy and then tomorrow sometime we're gonna head north try to beat the snow. It sounds crazy to drive north to beat the snow but apparently it's not gonna be snowing north toward Lander which is where we're headed and yeah that's gonna be the plan. But for now we are holed up here in Green River or just outside of Green River on BLM land where there are 1500 wild horses in this general huge area and Lindsey stumbled across four of them. We're just joy riding today so we might find some more. Beautiful drive. Beautiful area. If only it were not so cold and windy right now it would be a pretty fantastic place to hang out for a couple days. But that being said we're just hanging out today so while Lindsey's off doing her horse thing I'm gonna go do my work thing so I can get some of these videos edited and get them out to you. You won't know that at this time they'll hopefully be out to you but I gotta get caught up because we've been out of Baja now for to the day one month and it feels strange saying that but uh we're back in the U.S. of A. Gotta get back into the grind. This time next week I could be working in a restaurant so we're That was a bachelor herd. They were all stallions. Hey how can you tell they're stallions? They all had penises. You can't say that on YouTube. Yes I can. This is a family friendly show. What else do I say? They were all boys. Just hanging out? Just hanging out. Call that a bachelor herd. Oh okay. One of them was definitely older and he acted like he'd had mares before because every time the other horses would poop or pee he'd walk over and pee or poop on it and he was covered in scars and he looked older. And then there were two ones that looked really young like one looked maybe not even two. Another one looked to be about two or three and then there was one that looked full-grown but not very old. They all looked alike. They were all chestnuts with stripes. That was really funny. Huh? They're all his babies? Yeah maybe. I don't know. I mean it's kind of weird seeing one so young not with its mom but who knows what happened you know. So my eyes are watering from the wind. Oh I know. And that truck that just went by drove out and they didn't they I was like they're down there so they stopped and got they had a little little baby with them so they were happy to see some. Otherwise they wouldn't have found them because they had walked down into the valley. Yeah. And they hadn't they didn't care at all that I was there. At first I thought they were afraid of me because I was walking and they kept moving but they're just on the move. Yeah. Because once I got down and I went around and I cut in front of them they started walking towards me like hey and I was like crap I have to get out of their way and I turned and then they turned towards me again and they kept following me. Anyways it was funny but uh one laid down and rolled but that's about it. They were cool. I don't know if we'll see any others. You want to head down the road a little further? Yeah I think there's I saw kind of a pull off further up ahead so. Okay we'll do that. No more horse day. It's time to drive. I don't know we might see some on the side of the road. We're not stopping. So yesterday was Lindsay's horse day. She had an amazing time saw all kinds of horses. Wild horses in like three different spots four different spots. And then we saw domesticated horses. Domesticated horses. They were awesome little baby running around having a great time. So we we camped at this reservoir out in the middle of Wyoming. They should just rename the state Windy. Yeah. No more Wyoming. Windy. They got the first letter right. W. But instead of Wyoming it's Windy. So Wyoming is crazy windy especially this time of year in the spring and we're about to drive the south pass to Atlantic City. 75 miles and tomorrow there's a weather warning. So that's why we're doing it today. Yeah National Weather Service has issued a warning that says if you're in a big rig like us or semi trucks don't drive the road tomorrow. So there's a storm coming through. It's going to dump snow up there. It's going to dump rain where we end up today. God willing we don't get blown off prematurely off the edge of the cliff. I mean if that if that happens you'll never see this but I lived a good life. I'm pretty happy. We'll be fine. We've done it in our truck camper which was way more top heavy than this RV. But we didn't do it when we had a weather warning on the way. Yeah. So we're still we're still 12 15 hours early on the weather warning so hopefully it's not going to be a problem. But just letting you know that in case somebody finds this video and takes this footage out and you see like we are we're being safe. We're going in advance. We were going to hang out here for a couple days but we decided let's move forward. Let's get toward Lander or get into Lander and that's where we're headed. We're headed to Lander. Yeah we're going to hang out in Lander for a few days. So it's going to rain tonight. It's going to rain tomorrow but we got errands to run. It's a cool little town we'll show you all about. Really cool state park up there. We're going to go check that out again probably and uh then we'll go to Thermopolis. Free camping. We're putting off going to Thermopolis because we got to start paying for camping once we get there. But free camping in Lander. Let's go. Well we blew that out of proportion. Literally blow like wind blows you know get it? Blown out of proportion. Yeah that was not that was not that difficult at all. No it wasn't. Maybe tomorrow it'll be awful but today. Glad we did it today and got out of the way. Got out of the way. So no worries we're in Lander. We're going to start running some errands. We're not going to bring you along to all of them. We got to get our bikes fixed after using them quite a bit in Baja. Pre-Baja in the first part of Baja. Then they sat in the salt and sun and sand for two months. So they're pretty bad. Then the Utah dust and all that stuff's all over them. So we're going to get our bikes fixed because that is our main mode of transportation in Thermopolis. And uh what else we got? We're going to go clean the mud off this RV. We're going to clean the mud out of our clothes. We're going to do laundry. Do some laundry. Really bad. Got like 20 pounds worth of laundry back there. And then um something else. So we got to get water. We don't have water in the RV and then go find a place to camp before rain comes. Water's turned on. Yeah. Everywhere in Wyoming water's been turned off. I'm sure we'll find water. On that note it's time to get started. Let's go have some fun running some errands. Oh and we got one more tank of gas to put in. And then no gas for the next four five months. It's exciting because I can't afford any more gas. It's been ridiculously outrageously stupidly expensive for no reason. That's it. Hopefully it's the last tank of gas for quite a few months. June, July, August. Three and a half, four months. Something like that. Who knows. We need to save our money on gas because that's outrageous. Almost two hundred dollars again. Two hundred dollars? Yeah. Is it done yet? 180 something. Yeah it's time. So you have to like redo the card? I didn't hear Maverick knows what's up. Every other place since we came back from Mexico I've had to pay twice to fill up the tank. We only have a 55 gallon tank and we never run more than 45 gallons of gas out of it. But I still have to. Just look on his face. He's staring at something hard out the window. There's not a tree out there. Starts with an S and ends with coral. Coral. Coral. All right. No more gas for a while. Now we're gonna go do our dirty laundry and then what? Find camping? Is that it? Yeah. Well we know we're gonna camp. Yeah but did we get all of our our stuff done? Yeah we dropped the bikes off. Dropped the bikes off. Got water at the bike shop. They're really awesome people. We'll tell you about the bikes when we pick them up. If you're ever in Lander, best place to go. Well the only place to go if you get your bike fixed. Um cleaned off. Holy cow. Fifteen dollars. At least fifteen dollars. Just put the credit card in and it kept running. But um we we had a lot of dirt underneath this. Yep because of Riley in the snow. Look he got maverick. He got mormon tacos. We went and tried to uh. Linz is not prejudiced toward mormon. We call them. We're at a maverick gas station. It's mormon owned and they have really good tacos and nachos. So we call them mormon nachos. Um anyway I'm probably no matter what I say I'm gonna offend somebody. We're not we're not judgmental against mormons. We just we call mormon nachos because they're freaking delicious nachos and they come from maverick. Anyway we're gonna go uh wash our laundry and then go set up camp because it's supposed to rain this afternoon all through the night and into the morning. And I want to be stationary set up and chill. Well we've been holed up here in Lander in the Lander city park. It's an awesome place. They allow you to camp for three nights for free. Um it's beautiful. We've been camped right on the water's edge. It's been awesome. Dog's been out playing. We got all of our errands run. We got a lot of work a lot of work done online. Uh great cell service here in town. Went in town spent some money on delicious breakfast or brunch. Um and just we've really enjoyed having a couple days here in Lander before we make our run on Thermopolis. One thing to note just like when you spend the night in a Walmart parking lot if you're camping in a place like Lander and there's other towns like it um where they allow you to camp for free they are doing trash services. They're cleaning up behind us even though we should be leaving no trace. All those principles right. But they're taking care of us and letting us stay here for free. So we always try to support the local communities. So that's something we definitely want to encourage you. Find yourself in a place in Lander or like Lander uh where you have the opportunity to camp for free in town. It's different. If you're out on BLM land and you're boondocking out in the middle of nowhere obviously there's nowhere to go and spend your money. But we always like to make sure that we're supporting the local uh economy because that's part of the reason why they're making this available to us. So every night there's probably 10 or 15 RVs here and this is even during slow season. And if all of us are going out or if even half of us are going out and spending money on the local restaurants, bars, grocery stores, gas stations, us, bike shop. We spend a couple hundred dollars at a bike shop getting our bikes prepared. So all that money goes into the local economy and that is a really awesome thing. As we get to travel we get to participate in local economies. So just a little pointer about RVing in small communities like this that do allow and are very RV friendly. We want to keep it that way. We want to continue to support their businesses as well. One last thing to do in Lander before we get out of here is to go up to Sinks Canyon State Park. It's pretty awesome. We'll show you that. Let's go do it right now. We're here at the Popoaggie River. I'm just kidding it's the Popoaggie. Just had a great hike. We did end up at the Popoaggie. P-O-P-O space A-G-I-E. It's the Popoaggie River. We're at the Sinks where the water just disappears into the ground and then it pops up down the road and there's actually like the biggest trout you've ever seen in your life. And they have no idea where this river goes. Like they've tried to track it. They've put like little tracking devices like the float into the water and they disappeared. Just goes in underneath the rocks and then it comes out on the other side of the canyon. A couple hundred yards away. Yeah like a spring. Like it comes out like a spring. Do they think they ever put like scuba gear on? I don't know. I just know that's what Ro and Noger told me. Yeah I mean I think the hole would be too small. It's way too small. Yeah. Anyway. It's cool though. We are on the road. We've got one last stop before we get to old Thermopolis and that is Riverton. Wally World in Riverton. Yeah. There's not a lot of grocery options. In fact there's only one right now in Thermopolis and it's Monopoly and we don't like it at all. Small town. That's what happens. There's 3,500 people in this town. But I'm very much against this person that owns the grocery store so I'm going to spend as very little there as possible. I'd rather give my money to big old corporate Walmart than to this guy who runs a Monopoly in town. So that being said we're going to load up on groceries at Walmart. If you're keeping track of our budget we're going to be over budget this month because we're buying lots of groceries to stock up for Thermopolis. One grocery store in Thermopolis. That's it. So let's go. Let's head on out. On groceries. Well this is it. This is the exciting time. We are about to head into the Wind River Canyon which is the entryway to Thermopolis when you're coming from the south out of Shoshone and it's exciting. It is beautiful. Lindsay and I say it's probably the most gorgeous 15 miles although we've seen a lot of gorgeous 15 miles since then. Lindsay's really wrapped up in TikTok right now. Videos. So we're going to be driving through the canyon. Come along with us when we pop out the other end. We are in Thermopolis. We are in our home on the road which is exciting. We love love love pulling into Thermopolis and it's graduation day for high school there so pretty much all of our friends are tied up graduation. Make a nice quiet entry into town and then catch up with everybody hopefully this week. Well we made it. We made it to Thermopolis. We are all set up at our campsite which is cool. Yeah. It's a new experience for us in this particular part of town but we are set up and we're excited to be here and we want to let you know there's going to be lots of fun things coming our way and your way as we live here this summer but we're going to wrap up the season right now. This is still the Baja season. Yeah this was the end of leaving Baja and making our way here so thanks for being a part of the journey this far. Look forward to connecting with you shortly and sharing with you all the great things that Thermopolis has to offer and of course meeting you if you happen to be swinging through. And if you're a new viewer and you haven't subscribed go ahead and hit that subscribe button. Yes very much so because she's cuter than I and she said it. And we should have a new season coming out soon. She said it again. We'll see you when we see you.