WLM | my Wyoming craving
The goal was to present areas that would
be relatively easy to access by most casual
travelers, but would definitely take them off
the interstate highways.
The next step was figuring out exactly how
to put this all together and actually cover as
much territory as possible in a reasonable
amount of time. It fell to me to handle the
majority of the logistics and research, while
Bo was studying photographic techniques
that would apply to new types of vistas that
he hadn’t experienced before. Bo was insistent
that we put exactly what we saw
on the pages of the book. There
wasn’t going to be any manipulating
of images to enhance colors or
put things in the images that just
weren’t there. I agreed completely,
having seen other books where
the exaggerated colors gave false
impressions.
We spent the next year compiling
information on places that could
be accessed without too much
hiking or being put in unnecessarily
treacherous situations. This included
using USGS maps, satellite imaging,
road atlases, internet resources,
library reference sources as well as
historic society and Chambers of
Commerce contacts. After this was all
sorted out, we made plans for three
trips to the southeastern quadrant
which would total about 30 days and would
cover almost 4,500 miles, just i