What's a cross country trip without Wyoming? And how better to underscore an 8000-mile road trip than a drive through the Powder River Basin, a place created solely for the divine purpose of providing fossil carbon to make gasoline and generate electricity.
Gillette looked like it was booming (I suspect the term "boom town" was coined in Gillette). Coal trains, probably bound for power plants in the southeast, were stacked up in Rozet, and there were plenty of both old and new oil wells within a stone's throw of the highway. I would have enjoyed getting off the main road to go look at some of the big coal mines but we had to keep moving.
We stopped at a Starbucks in Gillette to check email and to fill Dad up with coffee. Then we were off to the mountains.
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