Wyoming Factoid…

[JohnRippert]

I remember drive through liquor stores here in Texas. "Just toss the keg/cases of beer in the back of the truck. Thanks!"

 

[Rustyt1953]

I remember drive through liquor stores here in Texas. "Just toss the keg/cases of beer in the back of the truck. Thanks!"

There are drive-thru beer vendors peppered all about the tri-state here. They are called " pony kegs".

 

[Wingmaster]

God Bless Wyoming

 

[crazyphil]

Years ago I was in Casper. Pulled into a service station to get some gas.
went to open my driver's side door and a gust of wind took the door right
out of my hand and slammed it open. Never worked right after that.

 

[mtgianni]

A building only has to be 2 stories for either an escalator or elevator, and one can be a basement

When taking some adult instructor classes at the University of Wyoming in the 90's I stayed at the tallest building in Laramie. It was a 3 story campus dorm.

 

[Kevin J.]

…per Ripley’s Believe It or Not.
Wyoming has only two escalators in the entire state!
Anybody confirm?

Are we counting these?

 

[Hair Trigger]

Do you know where the escalators are located?

I figured the tourists would want one up the side of Devil's Tower.

This can be a harsh, isolated place sometimes and I’m fine with that. Keeps the riff raff out.

Any truth to there being a county there with no population, no law enforcement group, and no jury of your peers? Just a short drive across the border from Montana?

 

[Muss Muggins]

In truth, it's really four escalators, though . . .

Unless you can only go up in each building. Or down . . .

 

[Buford57]

I always enjoyed getting directions to locations in Wyoming. Everyone knows the cardinal directions (north, east, south, west). The number of cattle guards can be very helpful. Counting windmills is frequently involved. And, of course, all directions start out from "the tree"; everyone knows where the tree is because there is only one every hundred miles or so. Getting supplementary directions to the tree marks us as outsiders, which can result in all sorts of practical jokes.

I was once directed by a convoluted route to a T-intersection across from a fenced pasture with a 3-legged cow as a reference point. Sure enough, I found it.

Do Wyoming bars still offer drive-thru service? Order a round of cocktails and a six-pack, then head on down the road. Very handy!

The follow-up question "how far is it?" was answered in beers. About a 6 pack from Casper to Cheyenne. If you kept it over 80.

 

[Skeet 028]

In truth, it's really four escalators, though . . . . .

Still only two...up in the morning...down in the afternoon/evening. Rest of the time ya gotta be able to run up or down faster than the escalator

 

[llowry61]

I thought Wyoming was beautiful. Shot an Antelope in the Medicine Bow area. We went to a bar where they told me several westerns had been filmed. It was a pretty cool place.

I shot the Antelope at 300 yards and was quite proud of myself. Being from Ohio I didn't realize that was a chip shot out there.

Estimating distance is hard to do when there are no landmarks, I bought a range finder and GPS before I went and glad I did. You could get mighty turned around out there.

 

[Wyo]

Any truth to there being a county there with no population, no law enforcement group, and no jury of your peers? Just a short drive across the border from Montana?

I think you’re talking about the infamous “Yellowstone Zone of Death.” It’s a little strip of land that’s part of Yellowstone Park but located in Idaho. It’s an entertaining theory but I doubt it would actually work out. I would not care to be the test case. Here’s a link to an explanation of the whole deal.
Zone of Death (Yellowstone - Wikipedia).

 

[BC38]

I lived in the Bridger Valley - halfway between Evanston (Utah border) and Rock Springs/Green River from October 1981 to July 1984. Worked on the oil rigs most of that time.
Below zero cold, windy, and snow on the ground 7 months of the year.
Above 100 degrees and dry as a bone, sagebrush and parched clay the other 5 months of the year.
Highways were straight as a string for miles and you could easily drive 20 miles in any direction without seeing a tree bigger than my forearm.
The Blacks Fork "River" flowed through town - and at it's highest flows in spring time you could still jump across it in places - not much more than a small stream.
Not my kind of terrain or weather, thanks.

 

[Buford57]

I think you’re talking about the infamous “Yellowstone Zone of Death.” It’s a little strip of land that’s part of Yellowstone Park but located in Idaho. It’s an entertaining theory but I doubt it would actually work out. I would not care to be the test case. Here’s a link to an explanation of the whole deal.
Zone of Death (Yellowstone - Wikipedia).

Then there's the former Shannon County South Dakota (now Oglala Lakota County) which is entirely within the Pine Ridge Lakota Reservation. It was laid out during the territorial period and never formally organized. Neighboring Fall River County handles deeds, etc. and in the 80s the Sheriff in Fall River lodged non-native prisoners for the tribal police. I spent three years working with the tribal cops one weekend. Good guys but subject to all the stresses of LE plus those of the Rez. Made for short careers and lives.