Heute stand vor allem die Durchquerung Wyomings auf dem Programm. Wyoming ist der zehntgrößte Bundesstaat und hat weniger als eine halbe Million Einwohner. Daher verlaufen die Straßen hier häufig kilometerweit schnurgerade, und es begegnet einem kaum ein Auto, geschweige denn ein Mensch. Das macht das Autofahren doch recht anstrengend.
Today we mainly drove through Wyoming, the 10th biggest state with less than half a million people living there. I think I will never get used to roads going straight on for miles, without much traffic, just a few cows here and there. Driving here is pretty exhausting.
We spent the afternoon in Fort Laramie. It started out as a fur trading post and was later purchased by the army and turned into a military outpost which played an important role when gold was found in the Black Hills and conflicts arose because the prospectors didn't respect that the Natives considered the hills their sacred ground.
We spent the afternoon in Fort Laramie. It started out as a fur trading post and was later purchased by the army and turned into a military outpost which played an important role when gold was found in the Black Hills and conflicts arose because the prospectors didn't respect that the Natives considered the hills their sacred ground.
Nachmittags waren wir dann in Fort Laramie. Ursprünglich war es ein Handelsposten, später wurde es dann zu einem militärischen Stützpunkt und erlebte vor allem durch Konflikte zwischen Goldsuchern und Ureinwohnern, die ihr heiliges Land entehrt sahen, stürmische Zeiten.
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