July 11, 2003-The Final Day
		A day for driving.  We headed south on 191 to Rock Springs, where it intersects I-80.  What the graph doesn't show is probably the most exciting thing that day, Ft. Bonneville.  Ft. Bonneville was founded by Benjamin Bonneville, on leave from the US Army, and financed by John Jacob Astor on a fur trading expedition.  Historian Bernard DeVoto speculates Bonneville was still reporting to the Army command and was there partially as a spy for the US Government to monitor the activities of the British, Spanish, French and Russian in the US West.  Ft. Bonneville was strategically placed to do just that.  We stopped at the historical market, read it and left.  The Sante Fe Restaurant was very good, very cheap Mexican food and I highly recommend it to all who happen to be passing through Rock Springs. The wife drove from Rock Springs to Laramie, as is obvious from the much higher speed on that leg of the trip.  We originally stopped to see an old West prison, but the price of admission was much too steep.  We did use the restrooms on the premises, and they were very clean.  Food at McDonald's, a letdown from our earlier meal. The final leg home.  Traffic builds near Ft. Collins and Greeley.  I fell in love again with my idea of selling everything and moving to Ft. Collins and working for the Budweiser plant.
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