Trouble in Wyoming

We were sailing smartly down the 25, stopping every other hour or so to let us and Mag the Dog do our duties, fill up on gas, and check out the Subways and McDonald's on the way to Albuquerque. Wyoming is surprisingly green for August and hazy too, I suppose from wild fires.

By the way, if anyone is interested, the Subway breakfast sandwiches are at least as good if not better than the McDonald's. We stopped at a rest stop 15 or so miles beyond Douglas and our Saab died electrically right there. No rhythm in the old ticker. This was the middle of nowhere at 3pm on a Friday afternoon. AAA eventually found someone to haul us in to Douglas, where we learned that the "high-end" techs would be back on Monday and the parts could probably be ordered from Denver then and we would be good to go on Tuesday or maybe Wednesday. They would be glad to phone around for a room for us to stay 'til then. Hmm.

We learned that a taxi service had recently opened in Douglas. They were capable and willing to take us to Casper for $60 where we found a very useful car rental agency at the Natrona International Airport, a nice place with Delta, Northwest, United and maybe some smaller airlines willing to take us to Salt Lake City, Minneapolis or Denver, but we would have to wait until the following day. [Added later: if you are approaching Casper Airport from the south, do not expect to see a sign telling you where to turn off the 25. It is 4 to 6 miles west of town on the north side and says to "Shoshoni."]

We took a small Hyundai SUV for the week and found it excellent, getting anywhere from 24 to 27 mph, depending on what we were doing. The only problem we had was that we had brought along some cassette tapes and the Hyundai only had a CD player.