Devil's Tower and How To Gain Lots Of Muscle Mass in 3 Weeks

Our experience becoming Care-A-Vanners for Habitat for Humanity was good.  It's a lot of work.  Hard labor work.  Lots of heavy moving things, such as piles of wood, compressors, piles of dirt and tools of the trade.  You also find yourself climbing up and down scaffolding and ladders.  You take down or put up that scaffolding all over the build.  Within an hour of starting on the first day, Chris was high up on a ladder with a nail gun putting up siding.  3 weeks was one week too long.  Most Care-A-Vanner builds last 2 weeks. 

It's a good way to build muscle.  Some morning we couldn't get our bodies to move. It was painful, but in a good way.  Kind of.

The idea behind Care-A-Vanners is that they show up as a group of 2, to maybe 8 couples.  We all park in the same RV Park.  We Care-A-Vanners work hard for two weeks and this gives a huge boost to the build.  This helps out the local Habitat for Humanity affiliate managing the build.  Our 6 couples, and one single women, put the build a month ahead of schedule. This means the family may be able to move in by Thanksgiving.  It was worth the work to have our Construction Manager tell us that.  We will do it again.

Before we left the Gillette area after the Escapade, we took a day trip to Devil's Tower.  It was a beautiful drive through the rolling hills of Wyoming.  Half way there we ran into a trial ride.  However, instead of cows, it was sheep going right down the middle of the highway.   The sheep dogs were doing a good job of containing about 200 sheep.  The cowboy on the horse and the cowboy on the 4 wheeler were working it also.  Pictures below.

Devil's Tower was amazing.  It certainly draws you to it.  You can't take your eyes off of it.  There were at least a dozen people climbing it.  There is a trail that goes around the bottom that's a little over a mile and it's paved.  A nice walk but your neck gets a cramp from looking up.  Like I said, you can't take your eyes off of it.  It does have a spiritual feel around it.  Here's the National Park info on it.   http://www.nps.gov/deto/index.htm

Here's some pics of the sheep and Devils Tower.  As usual click the link below, select slideshow and hit F-11 on your computer to enlarge the pics.

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