What we found on a random road in Wyoming

 What we found on a random road in Wyoming.

What we love most about our RV Full-Timing life is that we get to explore. We just pick a road and go for it. On this day it was no different, except for the fact that we are workamp now for the summer season. So we only get 2 days off. That just means we have to go back LOL. 

Our plan was to head to Wyoming and check out the businesses there to see if it would be wiser to start shopping there for our food/gas/supplies in general. We took the backway, (neither of us having ever been this way) to see the backcountry. 

We found stuff. A Ghost Town,  Kilns and just beautiful landscapes EVERYWHERE. 

The ghost town is called Piedmont. It was a timber and railroad town. The town was alive around 1867 and had some famous (and not in a good way) travelers. Butch Cassidy used Piedmont as a meeting place with all of his criminal soulmates for the big bank robbery in Montpelier, Idaho. There is a guess at what they stole - in the range of $10,000 which for that time was a lot. Although I think today $10,000 is a lot but then I don't have that lol. The Union Pacific fell victim to many criminal acts because of the like of Butch Cassidy and cronies. 

There are still some property still there with reminders of what it was like back in the day. It was neat to sit on the side of the road dreaming about, what it was like back in that time. No doubt life was hard but man their office view is breaktaken.

Oh course so much lumber was taken. 

There are still farms in the area.

The houses are starting to fall down even more so - when I did the research of the area, what a difference just a couple of years of hard weather on these old houses. It is private property so use your best judgement and leave it as you found it. 

Moses Bryne was the first in Piedmont but changed the name to Piedmont because it means in Italian 
"Foot of the Mountain"

Those clouds were just magical

I hope a bride was carried over the threshold 

Oh the secrets that this empty house holds

And just further down the road we find our next find. Piedmont Charcoal Kilns. Neither of us have ever seen such a thing in our lives, (now you can understand our love for our life because not only seeing but learning things almost on a daily basis). 

The kilns are remnants of charcoal making. And you could smell them. These were built by the first family of Piedmont Mose Byrne in 1869 just two years after settling in the new town. I'm not sure how long these were producing charcoal, because in 1971 the area was registered with the National  Register of Historic Places. 100,000 bushels a month down to a physical reminder of what was once. 

There were 4 but as time goes by they will eventually all tumble down

These are huge up close.

Amazing at what the inside looks like - right?

This was taken from inside.

There was so much more that we had seen on this day, but you're just going to need to go and see the area for yourself. It would be fun to compare notes. Do bring a sacked lunch because there are picnic tables there next to the interpretive panels. They really made the whole area visitor friendly.

I hope you enjoyed our adventure day of where we just picked a random road and went for it!! You just never know what you will see. The video below is a blast from the past. Get ready to chuckle... We live on the wild side of life. 

We took a Belly Dancing Class - it was so hard but it was so much fun. We had people make fun of us because it was beneath them. But you know what. Life is about having fun and it's our fun. 

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