058: Day 71: June 18, 2021: Glenrock to Casper Wyoming. 25.6 miles today and 2545.6 miles in total.

Today we had a lazy morning in Glenrock. We had only about 25 miles to Casper with the great prospects of spending the weekend with Louise. It is also our son, Daniel's, birthday and we wish him all the best with his day today and the year ahead. May God bless you.

This is part of the entrance foyer of the Higgins Hotel and

this is part of the restaurant room. After a lovely sitdown breakfast we took off.

Glenrock has a short rail trail and we started at the Municipal Park.

There is a lovely bridge across a creek and 

some large pieces of petrified wood, a donation to help beautify the trail.

We soon came to the end of the trail and went back on the road.

We passed the "Rock in the Glen" outside Glenrock, the home of the Herders. I liked the nickname, as it fits in perfectly with the predominant farming activity - herding cattle.

There is an abandoned rail line waiting to be improved into a rail trail running all along the road from Glenrock to Casper. We saw this trestle at the Big Muddy Pond next to the North Platte River.

We also passed this beautiful sign post supporting the "307 First- movement," a movement that aims to keep funds in Wyoming to help strengthen local businesses and the State of Wyoming.

Our flags are still flying high!!!

I was quite upset when we came to the beginning of the Casper Rail Trail outside the Town of Evansville. It was just pebbles and a surface not for our bicycles. At least we saw a pedestrian using the trail.

It would be great if this type of information on surface conditions is included in the Great American Rail Trail web site. This will make planning so much easier.

After a couple of miles we entered Casper and started on the paved portion of the trail at this underpass and junction.

At last I know where I live - this is my face and name on the wall, my truck and my trailer. 🙃🙂🙃🙂

The first part of the paved trail passes through a more industrial part of Casper. It is remarkably smooth and we enjoyed the overall design - full of smaller curves.

Soon we found extra beautification like this Veterans Memorial Park and 

statues. Christine liked this one a lot. It shows a mother reading a book with her two children.

Yours truly was very happy with these park benches.

The trail ended too soon, but we were in good time to go to

the Crazy Pedaler Bike Hub for a tuneup on our two bikes and the trailer. 

Garritt was very helpful and we left the bikes in his care while we went

to the Metro for a lovely coffee. I also had a great snooze on the sofa behind Christine.

We took a short walk as well. Look at this interesting art work and 

it has been a long time since I saw one of these sidecar motorbikes.

Once the bicycles were tuned up and repaired (I had a broken spoke on my rear wheel that I did not even know of), we stopped in the foyer of the Clarion Inn at the Platte River and checked in.

Louise arrived soon after with Sampson and 

all of us were happy. 

Even Sampson enjoyed the bed. 

Time to switch off the lights and rest. The more than 2500 miles had been a long stretch and we have about 1500 left still.