7/17/18 - Rock Springs, WY

We left this morning and went to the dump before getting on the road.  The man in front of us took 30 minutes to dump and then he couldn’t get his sewer hose back in the holder. I wanted to get out of the truck and tell him this was ridiculous and that he needed to hurry up and move on.  Jim wouldn’t let me.   I got out and took pictures of the flowers.  It took us 5 minutes to dump.  We headed to Rock Springs, WY today. On this route (the Lincoln Highway) between Cheyenne and Laramie, we stopped at the rest area that is the highest point on the 3,500 mile route from N.Y. to San Francisco.  It was 8640’.  There is a really large monument to Abraham Lincoln.  We made it to Rock Springs and found that the fairgrounds where we wanted to stay was full.  They have around 1,100 sites.  The National High School Rodeo was in full force.  We went to Bitter Creek Brewing to use their Wi-Fi since our phones don’t have connection here.  We spent the night in the Walmart parking lot.  It was full of RVs and semi trailers.  I bought a bagged salad mix in Walmart and added a few things from the farmer’s market to it.  That was a nice supper.  Later I went back into Walmart and got us a pint of strawberry ice cream.