Wyoming: Casper, Cheyenne, Laramie

I passed through Wyoming in three days. Wyoming is the least populated state in the US, the population being somewhere around 560,000, which is just over half the population of metropolitan Edmonton.
There doesn't seem to be much along the way which I took south from Billings besides beautiful landscapes, of which I shot a bunch of photos.

My first stop was in the city of Casper, where I spent the night, grabbed a coffee in the morning, and continued south. My initial plan had been to go to Cheyenne, spend a day there, then do the same in Laramie but when I got to Cheyenne it was raining, in fact it seemed the rain had been following me from Billings, so I got some lunch and continued to Laramie the same day. There wasn't really anything I'd wanted to see there, so it didn't seem like much of a loss.

Laramie is a nice college town and I enjoyed a somewhat chilly bike ride around the downtown area, spent some time in a stylish coffee shop, then went for a walk and took pictures of the Laramie Mural Project.
Before crossing into Wyoming I had sent out five couchsurfing messages in both Cheyenne and Laramie, but had gotten no response. I finally got a message from one guy in Laramie, which was perfect since I'd almost decided not to stop there at all and to head straight to Denver, CO.

I met up with Dan Toro in the evening after he was done work. Dan is an artist and in fact was one of the people who contributed to the Laramie Mural Project. He was a great host and brought us pizza and beer, which we shared over a very pleasant conversation. We parted late at night and the next day I drove out towards Colorado.