Oddments from Rawlins, WY

This billboard was not what I expected to encounter on Interstate 80 outside Green River, Wyoming. Apparently it is a national campaign reaching the considerable number of states where LGBTQ people still do not enjoy full civil rights. Sure, we can get married. But we may have no rights in employment, or to receive medical care from unwilling medical professionals, or to eat in restaurants that don't want us around. Don't know what erecting a few billboards does, but the Beyond I Do campaign provides national information on continuing discrimination.

We stopped to use the facilities at the original Little America which was unimposing, selling expensive gas and sundries. I'd driven by many times but don't think I'd ever before been into this heavily advertised truck stop and motel. Oh yes -- there were also these for sale in the lobby. Click to enlarge. Wyoming is a different culture.

Morty had a far too interesting day. I knew he wasn't going to enjoying driving uphill from Salt Lake City to Park City, Utah. He did not -- howling all the way (perhaps his ears were popping?) and breaking into the body of the car from his jail in the far back. Here he explores the front seat while the humans repaired his enclosure. I don't think he can do that again. Once the road straightened out, he did better for the rest of the drive.

We've crossed the Continental Divide -- it's all downhill from here. Ha!