Wellll, we left Reno bright and early yesterday
morning (it feels weird calling it yesterday since we are still on the road), but
not before Deb made us one last delicious breakfast including an egg scramble,
toast and chorizo. We even took some left over chorizo for the road. I knew
when we left that we had a long journey ahead of us. The original plan was to
take about 8 hours to get to Salt Lake City, meet up with one of Dan’s friends
for a few hour break there and then continue on for another 8 hours to Denver,
which would get us there around 4am.
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| Dan, Dave and Deb |
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| These guys could probably quite there day jobs and become chefs. |
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| Another one of our furry friends, Kirby, with her UT colored bows! |
Everything started out on schedule. I napped for the
first couple hours, which always makes time go by faster. The drive out of
Nevada was filled with the same beautiful mountain scenery we had become
accustomed to the last few days. Unfortunately, the first few hours of driving in
Utah were not quite as beautiful. Instead it was miles on miles of salt flats,
which our described perfectly by their name. Flat and salty. We may or may not
have actually proved to ourselves that they were salty. You also know you are
in a truly boring area when they have to put signs on the roads with warnings
for drowsy drivers. We got to the end of the salt flats as we approached Salt
Lake City (SLC). After making great time on the first half of our drive, we
were slowed down significantly as we encountered a wintry mix of rain and snow
in SLC. It turned out Dan’s friend wouldn’t be able to meet up with us, so we
forged ahead. And by forged ahead, I mean we drove less than 10mph for more
than 50 miles past SLC. Even after an hour into Wyoming, we were only able to
drive about 45mph or so. At this point we stopped in a little town in Wyoming
for some dinner at Subway, for the second time on this trip. Both Kileigh and I
went the adventurous route and tried their lesser known menu items of soup and
salad. The salads get a thumbs up while
the soup was only mediocre. Unlike us, Dan went the healthy route for dinner
choosing corn nuts, sunflower seeds and an energy drink.
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| Utah State Line |
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| The most boring driving of all time..salt flats... |
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| High quality photography. For those who can't tell it says Wyoming. |
Eventually the roads cleared up and we picked up the
pace. We felt like we were making good time, so when we saw a billboard for a
rest stop with 75 cent ice cream cones, we couldn't pass up such a once in a
life-time opportunity. The rest stop was called Little America and was rather
elaborate, containing showers and restrooms, a hotel, a mechanic shop, gas
pumps, and of course, the 75 cent ice cream cones we were craving. It was a good morale boost.
Also, Kileigh remembered about her pre-trip plan to collect a post card from
every state we visit and grabbed a WY one while were there.
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| So much ice cream for $2.25 |
It’s currently just after 3am and we are about 1.5 hours
from Denver still. We have been dealing with heavy fog for the last hour or so,
which has slowed us down a bit. On a side note, one thing that always surprises
me about long road trips, this one included, is that the best conversations both
serious and funny occur in the wee hours of the morning.
Also with Dan at the wheel currently, we just
passed the 3000 mile marker for our journey.
He also cracked open his forth bag of sunflower seeds of the trip today.
Between the sunflower seeds and coffee, I’m hoping we can make it the rest of
the way into town without few to no additional stops.
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