Why Wyoming?

I was born and raised in San Francisco, the city by the bay. It was a beautiful city with romantic beaches, the best food in the world, and art… The ART is some of the best in the world the whole city is brimming with museum’s, murals, and just people painting right there on the street amazing!!!

There are a lot of people I mean a lot of people. Around 18,000 per square mile and they don’t all bath properly or relive themselves appropriately. Gross. That many people create noise, such a deafening noise you can barely hear yourself think. The noise is 24/7 you can never get away from it unless you leave the city and even then the nearest peaceful place is well over 50 miles away.

Some people are extra charged by the excitement and bussle of the city but for me it was completely over stimulating. I can’t function when too many things are going on. My focus is fragile and fleeting so I can only thrive in wide open spaces with clean air to concentrate. Wyoming provided both.

Wyoming is truly the final frontier. With fewer than 590K people in the whole state it ranks as the least populated. We are outnumbered by cows somewhere around 3 to 1. It’s affordable, clean, quiet and I can leave my keys and purse in my car in front of my house knowing it will always be safe.

Its not a coincidence that Wyoming has such a low population the weather is brutal like regular negative degrees days, nine months of winter, and then there is the wind….. I kid you not the wind can rip the door off your car, pick up a small child, and blow over a semi truck which is a regular occurrence on I-80 through the entire southern portion of the state. The weather here is similar to Mars.

You have to be tough as nails to farm in these conditions, I regularly break open frozen water for our livestock about seven months of the year I keep a sledgehammer next to the water tank. Gardening in this weather at our altitude of 7000ft is pretty much extreme gardening. When you have a farm you have no choice but to get out in the elements to care for your animals.

At the end of the day Wyoming is my home and has been for over 23 years I can’t think of living anywhere else even with the crazy weather. We have wide open spaces, the best fishing and hunting, and the cleanest air in the country. I love the peacefulness of this beautiful place and I like that the wind keeps out the riff raff.