First Timers experiences in Wyoming ????? (Cheyenne, Casper: apartment, house, campground)

[shadowwalker]

My new wife in wyoming.Had alot of questions when we first met. Some got answered more or less. Some she didn't know to ask. Some she found out I'd B.S.'d her.
My wife was a girlfriend first. I remember the morning I woke up to her yelling and running from window to window in the apartment. She was yelling "It snowed, it snowed" all the time looking out at it. It was at daylight. She put on her house shoes and went out and played in it. She was from the south and never really seen that much snow. It was over a foot deep.
The second time. I was on a hotshot with oilfield toos. She was with me and she started squeeling and laughing at the tumbleweeds she saw rolling along the highway and across it. She made me stop and she "caught one". She held that on her lap from between Farson and Rocksprings to vernal, utah. And all the way back to casper.
Another time she was hanging out about a third of a basket of clothes for that "fresh smell".After she had showered. It was in January in casper. With wind blowing fairly hard.She came in the house and her long hair was frozen and sticking above her right shoulder out past it. "Look at me, my bugers froze in my nose!". I said go look in the mirror, laughing. She knocked the frozen hair on the side of the hallway wall as she went in.
Some other time I'll tell you all about Deer hunting and Giant snickers bars. And the famouse Jackalope Shotgun story. And then there is the good ones.

[Wyomiles]

When we first moved to Wyoming, from Colorado, my brother and I were in our early teens. My folks had purchased a campground just outside the south gate of Yellowstone . It was a beautiful place, in the middle of the forest with a river running through it, very isolated. We had people stay at the campground from all over the world and my brother and I always had a great time spinning yarns for those who had never been to the wild west. We were always amazed that there were people who still believed that Wyoming was still like it was in the 1800's. So we had fun telling them not to hike past a certain canyon up the river or the indians ,who we had a treaty with, would go on the war path. Some people would ask how we got back in this remote area and we would explain how we hauled everything in on the covered wagons. Then we would ask them what those horseless carrages they were driving were like. Another thing that blew us away was how people would walk right up to bear and buffalo with their kids and take pictures . One guy set a cooler full of stuff outside of his camper at night after we had warned him that the bear had been coming through camp looking for food . He wrapped a chain around it and tied it round a tree and waited. Sure enough the bear found it and after finding that it couldn't get the chain off, raised up and split the cooler in half with one swipe of it's paw. The man and his wife watched ,wide eyed , from inside thier camper as the bear sat down to dinner. Next morning as he was telling us what had happened , dad asked him if he had gotten some good pictures. The man said he had forgotten all about taking pictures but he had a great mangled cooler to prove it had happened.

[Kokopelli]

These are really funny!!

Thanks for sharing!!

[lnsturg]

Oh my!! Thank you for sharing your wonderful stories..how I pray for the day that my husband and I have some great antedotes to share with our family and friends as well!

I hope that others post their stories as well!!

[Earniefan]

When I first moved here from eastern Nebraska my now hubby took me to North Crow Reservoir to go swimming. It's located off of Happy Jack Road between Cheyenne and Laramie. Well being a Nebraska girl I wasn't aware that the water in Wyoming remained at 40 degrees in August! I suggested walking in from the shoreline but he said no lets walk around to the rocks and jump in. I should have known something was up right then. I jumped in and immediately froze, almost literally. It was funny until he realized I really couldn't make it to the rocks and he had to help me. There ended my swimming in Wyoming!! I didn't get in any water in this state again until we went down to Flaming Gorge Reservoir, and now that I know how many dead bodies are suspected to be floating down under in there I'm not swimming in it either, lol!

[ElkHunter]

When we moved back here after the service, the wife commented that there's a lovely creek, how come kids ain't playing in it. I just laughted and told her to go down and wade around. That was the first and last time she waded in the creek. I had to explain to her that the creek was fed by snow melt, not springs.

[wyolady]

When I first moved to Wyoming - Laramie - my then-boyfriend, now-hubby and I jetskiied Crystal Lake in June. I was surprised that I needed a wetsuit in the summer. Had a wonderful day recreating.

The next day at work, I went to run my fingers through my hair and imy hair was stuck to the tops of my ears. Evidently, the prior day at the lake, I had sunburned my ears, had blistered, they burst. . . . .the rest is pretty clear.

Taught me that even though the sun doesn't feel that much hotter at 7,300 - 8,000 feet, it is and burns skin much faster.

[shadowwalker]

I had a Jackalope mount in the living room. When my wife and I first started dateing I told here about the jackalope and how you had to get a license and go hunting in pairs. I said that you had to walk only a few feet apart and watch your partners backside. I told how the jackalopes were east to kill. But you had to be just as fast as they were. They would come in at lightning speed and try to poke you with their horns and get you on the ground. I said how once on the ground you were pretty much dead meat. As the speed of the animal, would make you a pincushion in a matter of seconds.
I also told her that here, to get the big Muley bucks. You bought a giant snickers bar and cut it up into 1/2 inch thick slices. You then put them on a pinion stump and got back and waited for them. When one came up to chew on a piece of snickers. You got your shot. While the deer was trying to chew up the carmel piece. It would take time as the deer could only chew carmel with the front teeth. As the back ones would lock up with the carmel on the molars. And muley's couldn't resist snickers.
She once asked what the two tracks made in the snow by a cross country skier once were. I told her that was tracks of a winter snake and they always traveled in pairs. Everywhere they went. And I told her the round holes in the snow made by the ski poles were where the snakes bobbed their heads from side to side in "that peculiar snake wiggle" that only they did.
I told her more. But one day she told the girls where she started a new job about hunting Mule Deer and that we would go Jackalope hunting that next fall, and some more stuff. They set her straight. I got it when she got home.

[wyolady]

Oh shadowalker - you bad, bad boy. I was laughing out loud

[Kristynwy]

Those stories are so funny!!!!

Well I was a "first timer" last Feb.

I could not believe how differently the wind blew here on the open plains, it is like a blow dryer just turned on! I can't imagine what it is like in Casper and especially in Cheyenne, I hear it is very windy down there lol...

I remember the first time I say prairie dogs line up along the white line of the freeway and their heads move back and forth watching the cars drive by I about fell out of my chair laughing as we drove to Casper! Although they are a major pest here I later learned.. LOL...

And I remember seeing few tumble weeds blow by for the first time as we were out taking a drive!