CF Oil Refinery - Lusk, Wyoming
After my ignition point failed, leaving me stranded in the middle of the Wyoming desert for 8 hours, I finally made it to Lusk, Wyoming, where I stayed in the only motel room available in the entire town. Long story, but this was the day of that eclipse in 2017, and while I was trying to make it to Casper, where the full eclipse (at 100% coverage) was visible. My car broke down right as I approached the end of a traffic jam on the “loneliest road in Wyoming”, which I later discovered stretched all the way to Casper, about 50 miles. I pulled off the road and watched the eclipse at about 98% with a Canadian family that let me use their glasses to shield the sun. After the eclipse, I started trying to figure out what was wrong with my car, while about half of the several hundred thousand people that had driven to Wyoming for the eclipse drove by going the opposite direction. Anyway, after some help from a few Minnesotans, and Macgyvering a set of ignition points out of a wooden knife from a fudge shop that I had visited in the U.P. (that is it’s own story), I made it to Lusk and picked up new parts the next morning from a NAPA. I also walked across the street from my motel to visit this abandoned micro oil refinery, called “CF Refinery”.
