It all happened one day, during one of our many travels in the western United States, that we were going through the State of Wyoming and, with nothing better to do but carry on a conversation while driving, we began to comment on this State and how it can have dramatically changing wheather patterns. Having just witnessed moments earlier, but several miles behind, the same clear blue sky turn into a wall of blowing and blinding snow (commonly called a "white-out").

Winds have been known to gust upwards of 100 miles/Hr and blow over full-sized trucks. So, we were questioniong each other about the perculiar type of personality that would enjoy living in such a geographically unfriendly and intemperate area. I even came up with a joke on how that during the time that the railroads were being built and the Chinese were brought over to work them and when it was all done some stayed and set up house in these areas.

One day family members came to visit from China to this barren, open land and asked," But WHY...O'Ming?? And that would be the way the State got it's name WYOMING ! Yeah, I know, GROAN !