September 20, 2014. Medicine Bow This and Medicine Bow That - Stillwater Campground on Lake Granby.

September 20, 2014.  Medicine Bow This and Medicine Bow That - Stillwater Campground on Lake Granby.  We departed Gowdy State Park and drove through Laramie on our way to Medicine Bow Lodge through the Medicine Bow Mountains.  I was able to get a strong enough Internet signal at the Laramie Chamber of Commerce to publish yesterday's blog.

The changing colors of the aspens were striking as we drove through the mountains.  Medicine Bow Lodge looks only a little like the place where we stayed 30+ years ago.  Then, the cabins offered walls that didn't intersect with the floors.  I did find one old cabin which appears to be used for storage.  All the other cabins are relatively new.  MBL will celebrate it's 100th birthday in 2017.  A week-long stay during peak season will run you about $1500 for an adult and about two-thirds that sum for children.  If that seems steep, it is slightly more than a cruise and it also includes everything, food, horseback riding, fishing, and horseshoe tossing.  It also includes more, I just don't know what the more is.

We had lunch at the J. W. Hugus Restaurant in Saratoga, Wyoming.  J. W. Hugus was an early day entrepreneur who established general stores from Colorado to California.  Today, he serves up a decent meal for a fair price. Well actually, today he is dead.  But his descendants serve a decent meal.  There are no cloth napkins at the Hugus eatery, but no one leaves hungry.

Stillwater Campground is part of the Arapaho National Recreation Area and overlooks Lake Granby.  This afternoon, the sky was perfectly compatible with the water.  Look at the last picture above.  The two shades of blue are almost indistinguishable.

Oh, I forgot to tell you that we saw scores and scores of antelope in both Wyoming and Colorado today.  One of the pictures shows a dozen or more resting and munching in an irrigated pasture.

We are about one-thousand miles into our fall trip.  The most direct route to Granby is about 680 miles.  Obviously, we took a circuitous route.  But, we are here, three days early.  We will have some time to run around, look around, shop around and eat around before the meeting begins.  Good.  We haven't had enough around time yet.