Wow finally a travel day

May 4th-Did not sleep too well last night, the wind was really blowing, the Rolling Castle was creaking and rocking, the dogs would even bark at the noise the wind created whistling around the bedroom slide, we have never experienced such wild winds, the winds died down early morning then started again late morning and blew hard until around 8:00 pm. The day was not cold but sure started to cool off during the evening as was predicted. We are so happy that we did not choose to travel today, the winds blew harder than first predicted, we would have to get off the road, cannot pull the Rolling Castle safely in high wind.

May 5th- Well finally we can travel safely today, a beautiful sunny day with little wind, rain showers predicted toward Sheridan but we can deal with that. Woody talked to a person while filling up the truck this morning, he had driven up from the south yesterday via car and saw five vehicles in the ditch, 1 Motorhome on it’s roof, 4 fifth wheels smashed to smithereens and a semi trailer truck, we cannot believe people choose to travel in wild gusty winds, life is too precious to take chances, better be late than take a chance ending up in a accident. I am sure the trucker thought he was okay; they are so heavy, and more stable in the wind than RV’s. Praying no one was killed.Travelling from Wheatland to Sheridan was a beautiful drive through hills along side the Big Horn Mountains with landscape changes along the way, crossing the Powder River and Crazy Women rivers several times, dropping into valleys and viewing valleys from atop the hills. We saw many Antelope along with horses and cattle grazing the green hills and valleys. There is water in most creeks and the rivers are running full, this is the greenest we have seen this area, usually it is just brown but then they have had more snow and rain than usual, in fact there is snow still hanging around on some of the hills, and lots of snow left on the mountain tops. Once we travel past Casper, WY there is little traffic, just wide open space, dotted with ranch homes and some small communities but then Wyoming is the least populated State at around 522,000 people and the two largest cities Cheyenne and Casper have a population of approximately 55,000 and 53,000; ranks 9th in land area, 97,100 square miles equalling 5.3 persons per square mile. In comparison to Alberta, population 3,290,350 land area 248,000 square miles which equals 13.2 persons per square mile. The two largest cities, Calgary and Edmonton, population just around the 1 million mark each comprise almost one third of the entire population. Alberta ranks 6th in land area of the 10 provinces, 4th in population. Okay enough statistics, we enjoyed our drive today and happy to arrive in Sheridan, settle at Peter D’s RV Park and relax for the evening, the park is a nice clean, easy off/easy on of I25, we stayed here previously in 2006 and the owner remembered us, he loves dogs so had treats for the dogs in his pockets and gave them more treats when I was walking the dogs while Woody was getting the 5th wheel set up, this park has everything one needs while travelling, full hook-ups, excellent Wi-Fi, clean laundry, showers (not that we use them), cable TV, all pull thru sites, reasonable cost and just on the edge of town, PERFECT! We checked in for 3 nights, knowing we could not leave until at least Saturday due to weather and will see what the weather has is store for us over the next few days.