Life at an Airstream rally is a bit like being at camp. We're with our best friends and they all live next door or across the street or around the block. We can pop in and see them whenever we like, have dinner out on the (grass) patio, go somewhere for dinner, catch up on happenings of the past year, etc.
We have probably hugged a hundred people already and not everyone is even here yet. The Nor Cal rally is due to arrive tomorrow at 1:00 and we're looking forward to seeing all of them and hearing about their caravan here.
Today we have lunch with the Rotary Club, as our host is president of the club this year.
Yesterday we toured the technical college and were again amazed by its newness and up-to-date technology. In the afternoon we boarded the bus for our tour of the coal mine just west of town. It's an open pit mine and I won't go into the statistics because I can't remember them, but there's a whole lot of coal there. They put back the upper ground layers better than they were before and eventually there will be a hole where the coal occupied space.
They work 12 hour shifts, round the clock and do have to stop for thunder storms from time to time. Entry level job is driving the trucks! The huge shovels scoop out the coal and dump it onto the trucks. The trucks take it to the dumping area. It is loaded onto the train cars by way of conveyor belts. Each car has tons and tons of coal. There are something like 120 cars on each train - and there are many trains. Like I said before, "Coal is King". Wyoming - and Gillette- are very wealthy as a result.
Pictures later. We must now go register for the rally. I guess that's why we're here!
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