Left earlier this morning – 9:45, from Brush, Colorado, through Greeley and on into Wyoming through Cheyenne. We were trying to make it to Casper, but ended up staying in the A-OK Campground just north of Wheatland. We’re next to the interstate and the campground is kind of on a ranch. Open range here – going to the campground, a calf was trying to cross a cattle crossing and I had to shoo him back from the gap to get the truck and camper through. Horses are in the pasture next to us. Saw my first real jackrabbit yesterday, with ears as big as mules. Also started seeing pronghorns in the fields. Riding the interstate today, because there’s not nearly as much traffic and you still see the surrounding areas. Our first glimpse of the Rockies to the west of us. All the “new” homes/ranches can be seen for miles because that’s where all the trees are – planted around the houses as windbreaks. The deserted homesteads look so sad to me – they are just slowly dying. Another odd thing we saw were old timey telephone poles with the glass insulators on them – miles of them. God sure knew what He was doing when He made this world. I was looking at the land, how it was used, the cities, how everything was made to work together. Yesterday as we came into Colorado, there were feedlots everywhere and then there were also grain silos to feed out the cows. There were ranches with farmers mowing hay and wheat for the cows and then we started seeing dairy operations and milk trucks. And trains, tracks and tracks of trains, and semis hauling products. Then all the agriculture equipment, thus stores to sell it and people to repair it. And oil pumps in the fields and the equipment for it. Trains hauling in coal from back east. Cowboys rounding up cows to take to the feed lots. Trucks, horse trailers, hay balers. People working on the roads and lots of orange cones. Restaurants and hotels for the tourists and the locals. It’s a real good commerce lesson that the jug of milk and pack of steak don’t just magically appear in the grocery stores. God created all of us to be born in a specific place, at a specific time, with a specific purpose. And we were meant to work. We, the people, the church, not the government were supposed to provide for the orphans and widows and poor. But our government has created 3-4 generations of entitled people who don’t believe they should work. If we’d all follow God’s plan, this whole world would work like it is supposed to. There are so many jobs that aren’t filled – if you want to work, you can find a job. It might not be as the president of a company. I looked at the cowboys and their ranches and that’s their calling – their purpose and that supports food for those in cities. And the farmers grow the crops. The landscape is just stunning – even in this high desert, over 6,000 feet, along with the sagebrush – the animals that are adapted and made for this terrain. The pronghorns and jackrabbits. It is totally amazing and very humbling looking at the vastness of the prairie with the mountains in the distance, you get a perspective of how really small we are in the scheme of God’s plans, yet we are each needed for our purpose. And God supplied us with a beautiful good-night sunset about 10:00.
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