Cheyenne, Wyoming

“All my sisters soon were gone, to Denver and Cheyenne” 

From “My Father,” a Judy Collins tune from 1968.

Cheyenne Wyoming has been on my travel list forever to visit. Rhode Island has way more people in it than Wyoming -- Wyoming being our 10th largest state. YAH we saw buffalo along Route 25 and bighorn sheep on the way to Rocky Mountain National Park. Did you go to a national park this year? Why not? 4.5 million people went to Rocky Mountain National Park in 2017. Tom Egan introduced me to Estes a while back. We hiked Bear Lake. And Gettysburg and Moab and Tombstone and Leadville and Yosemite and …

People who lived in Cheyenne:

Wild Bill Hickok

Tom Horn

Bat Masterson

Pat Paulson

The Union Pacific Railroad founded this town. We loved hearing the trains traveling through, especially at night. We stayed at the historic 1911 Plains Hotel. It was not that long ago that the stagecoach ran from here up to Deadwood.

We are just back from visiting Steve and daughter Marnie in Fort Collins, Colorado. It snowed the night before we drove 45 minutes to Cheyenne. Our icy walk from the Plains Hotel to Hacienda Guadalajara Mexican restaurant was freezing in the 13-degree temperature.

We had a few setbacks on the trip. Our computer was out for EIGHT weeks. This blog post was my very first e-mail when we finally got it back. Sandy’s fancy phone died on the first day in Colorado. My simple old phone that people laugh about still works. On Steve’s birthday, I ended up in the hospital with my kidney stones acting up. All of Marnie’s dashboard lights came on. It is amazing that she had no troubles on her and Kerri's 2,000-mile trip out. Even thought all this happened, we still had a sweet time. 

After Sandy’s phone gets fixed, we are canceling our home phone. Maybe that will stop all the robocalls during dinner.

Marnie and Steve’s townhouse is spacious and warm in Fort Collins. They are enjoying being together after first meeting 30 years ago. They actually -- years ago -- rode Big Wheels together in the neighborhood. ycmtstuff u  Spacious is an excellent spelling word.

 I did NOT miss the computer but I did miss Google.

Gracias to all you joga people who showed Marnie so much love on her big adventure and on her CD release party.

So we are home. St. Augustine is up next, in Florida, for Marnie’s next yoga retreat. Then the Berkshires this spring, followed by Corfu, Greece, in Septembre. 

The Egans built a home next to ours in 1980. Son Paul Egan gets married to Danielle in Novembre, in Pennsylani,a so we are working on that. He still calls me Uncle Bob and I love it.

52 days set for Mexico vacation in the spring. Three couples are joining us. Are you one of them?

Nearly all of these facts are true. I would NEVER lie to you mi amor.

FUN photo below of Sandy packing for home at Maria del Mar “Cabanas” on Isla Mujeres, Mexico, taken 100 years ago. Gracias Clara. Our first trip here was in 1988. Did I ever tell you the story on how and why?  ja ja

su servidor, 

Roberto Francisco Tocino