Pray for Greeley

"With the expansive prairie out one door and the towering Rocky Mountains out the other, Greeley is a city of unlikely combinations that complement each other beautifully. Experience the best of the Contemporary West in a place where you can feel equally comfortable in a cowboy hat or a business suit."
Well, that's what the Greeley Convention & Visitors Bureau says. I rode my bike out to Greeley today to see what was there. It was a nice day, and I put on about 65 miles for the round trip. As I came into Greeley, I saw some signs that read "Pray for Greeley". I didn't know what they were about. As I rode up a hill, I smelled a rather recognizable oder... it was a meat packing plant! Ah ha! This was the plant that fired about 100 Muslim workers after refusing to report for work a day earlier in protest of the company's refusal to allow a prayer break during the work shift. It was in the news and here I was and I smelt it! Mystery solved!

Elsewhere in Greeley there is a place that has what I might call a very early mobile home:

It's a wagon with a little house on it!

A look inside the mobile home.

...and that's about all I have to report about Greeley.

Oh, and they grow sugar beets there: