July 7 2021.
First, let me get this off my chest, it was HOT!!! \u00a0I know, I know stop complaining, Mary tells me that all the time! She also tells me I never listen to her, so I just ignore her.
We drove out to Independence Rock this morning, it’s about 55 miles from a common place to cross the North Platte River here in Casper, \u00a0it wasn’t as an isolated rock outcrop as I expected it to be from my prospective personally I don’t know how they identified it from other rocks around.<\/p>\r\n
It was interesting, we didn’t walk to the top, no signs either way, so I guess we cold have but now at least we didn’t add out foot steps to the ware and tear on the rock.<\/p>\r\n
They do have a path all the way around the rock which we took,\u00a0I’m not going to call the misquotes bad or anything like that, but on 2 separate occasions they tried to carry me away, I think they wanted to make me their own living, private, sweet & tasty, blood bank.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n
On their last viscous attack\u00a0\u00a0Mary had to grab my ankles as they started to carry me away and the skeeters were lifting both of us off the ground, Mary’s feet were a couple of feet off the ground before I was able to squash enough of them so the rest couldn’t carry me away.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n
I can’t remember, did I mention it was HOT!!! Anyway, not knowing anything beyond what we could see when we got out of the Jeep we didn’t take any water or a hat with us. Turns out the path around the rock was almost 2 miles, at least the misquotes kept me from thinking about the heat.<\/p>\r\n
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