I have been in Wyoming for three weeks now and been on the same number of wells. The first week was wrapping up a well near Buffalo. With 2,000 ft left it took longer than it should have. From there I was off a well somewhere between Midwest and Bill Wyoming, wherever that is! And now I am on a well two hours west of Gillette. With all this driving around I have gotten to see some pretty impressive vistas.
The second rig was particularly far from anywhere. Took me a good three hours on dirt roads in the mud to get there. These dirt roads are special because the ranchers have imposed speed limits of 20MPH and have the ability to get you run off if you speed all because of these guys:
So needless to say I was glad I had stocked up on food in town before I headed out there. Food is always a highlight of life on a rig; especially when it’s free and already made. We got lucky last week, two ladies in a big Ford pickup rolled up to the rig. Clearly not rig people (no safety gear, not parking the right way) but they come with 35 plates worth of food for our rig. The problem is no one knows who sent the food! We ate it anyway. And it was delicious! Best BBQ I have had in Wyoming.
By the third week I’m off to the third well the worst part about leaving this rig was that halfway down the road I remembered that I had left my one good Tupperware container with the last of my curry in the fridge!!! Noooo!!! So here I am on the third rig without my curry and without my Tupperware. I have nothing to put my leftover chicken enchiladas in tonight.
The weather has been flip-flopping between nice warm days where the snakes come out (7 in 2 hours at one rig) and cold rainy days where if it was ten degrees colder it would be snowing. And now it is currently hailing.
