Saturday Wyoming Road Work

Construction back roads here are REAL construction sites.  You have to wait for
a pilot car and they guide you right through the site with workers all around you!

No police vehicles, just people doing their jobs.

 

Just to prove we did go to Montana on a back road.

Arriving back home we had to wait in line to go through the entrance to Devils Tower.

On Saturday I wanted to go on a back road to Alzada, MT, just 20 miles or so from Hulett.  People that work in the bookstore live on that road and complain about construction.  As children they rode the bus to school with children from Alzada, MT.  I thought it unique that kids would go to another state to attend school (Jr and Sr high).  I do not think it would be done in the east! Well, there was construction in at least 3 places and all sites were at work on a Saturday.  In the northeast you would never go right through a construction site while there were trucks, etc. working.  Liability would prevent it happening.  Out west they know how to move traffic, might be a bit slower waiting for the pilot car, but it moves.  You do not slow down to a crawl at construction because people do not drive in a closing lane until they cannot go any further and then try to squeeze in traffic that obeyed the sign!  All seem to know how to move into the correct lane well ahead of time and the traffic is hardly slowed.  Kudo's to out west drivers!  They seem to be courtious and just obey without police intervention. As an easterner I appreciate you.  And with living so far out one can get a license to drive at age 14......Wow!.... I talked to the flagger while we were waiting for the pilot car.