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Jan.24.2021
Bid boring goodbye on Interstate 25 in Wyoming, one of the nationâs most beautiful interstates. Nature gave the buttes crew cut hairdos. The gap between the Laramie Mountains and the Big Horn Mountains was the pioneersâ path to the west. Between Kaycee and Sheridan, the Bighorn National Forest stretches beside the highway.
Allow at least a day in Cheyenne, then two more days to explore the rest of I-25âs stops. Drive time without stops is 4.5 hours.
I-25 roughly follows the Bozeman Trail, the only trail that indigenous peoples ever shut down permanently. Range wars pitted homesteaders and large ranchers against each other.
Guests undergo COVID testing before entering the Capitol on Tuesday, Jan. 12 (Photo by David Brendan Hall)
COVID-19 is endangering record numbers throughout Texas, but state leaders are determined that the show must go on for the 87th Texas Legislature. That will mean bringing lawmakers, their aides and other Capitol staff, and at least some members of the public together as always, while not staging a superspreader event.
Leading up to opening day on Jan. 12, the House and Senate crafted rules to cover the basics. A Jan. 4 memo from Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick allowed senators only four guests for the swearing-in ceremonies and mandated that all entering the chamber be screened with a COVID test. (Though masks are required for Capitol entry, they are not required in the chamber.) Patrick pledged the Senate will downsize all ceremonial events this session; guests won t be allowed to congregate outside the brass rail on the Senate floor and only four members of the media,