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Planning trip to Powder River Basin at the end of August
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<p>Think about gas. Bring cash for that gas. Dont depend on every exit to have gas. Fill that tank every time you hit 2/3 or 1/2 tank. Some roads out west have signs saying "No gas next (30-200 miles) and they mean it too.</p><p>It's God's Country out there, but end of august signals onset of winter. Bring Chains too.</p><p>Stay OUT of those casinos and other traps. You dont need to lose your dollars there.</p><p>Keep one ear tuned to the local weather in your area. The Mountain range up there have a way of catching the unwary.</p><p>Buy a second battery for your cell. And a car charger too. Leave your travel plans for the day with some one in the family and check in daily because sometimes people leave up there and never show up where they wanted to go.</p><p>Take care of your nature before you drive and dont drink so much so fast either. That part of the USA is pretty wide open up there.</p><p>It would be better to hit that area sometime late may or so before the heat sets in. It is right short spring and summer up there. But what lands! Dont get caught with bad or cheapie tires. take care of your tires.</p><p>If it sounds like Im being a bit harsh or overly paranoid, apologies in advance. But I say that you are embarking on a great journey and the West is not the place to be skimping like the tenderfeets do back east thinking there is a 7-11 or starbucks every 5 miles.</p><p>I dont know too much about hotels, but I doubt there will be too many Hamptons up there. Probably Super 8's will be the best choice.</p><p>Everyone should get up there at least once in a life time. It's SOOO worth it.</p><p>The Trains? Well... I wasnt up there to rail fan much, too intent on getting over the Cabbage or out of Sheridan and eastbound gone before that winter storm caught us and made us stop to chain up. Once we hit the Dakotas it was time to open her up and let it run for St. Paul.</p><p>That Gillette or the Powder River is the great coal country. Seems that the entire United States wants thier trains loaded yesterday there and coal at thier power plants today. It aint the hard coal back east.</p>
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