Note: Luke has already archived our pictures traveling out to Oregon from Pennsylvania. We are not taking as many pictures on the trip back, although they’ll be posted shortly after arriving in PA. We are taking video, however- and will likely make something out of that, as well.
4:30am- wake up. Roll over, roll my eyes, etc. Not the most comfortable night sleep I’ve had, but… oh well. It’s on to driving now.
5:00am- we’ve gotten the bags and stuff out and are out of Dave & Kassie’s driveway on our way.
5:10am- stop at Dutch Bros drive through coffee stand for our last drive through coffee for a while. I’m not usually big on coffee, but with a long day ahead planned, I’ll take it.
5:20am- on the 5 heading south. Up over Siskiyou Summit and beyond. It’s too early, still- very dark and not even expecting to see the sun for another few hours. Rachel has brought up the SNL: commercials that I downloaded for our iPod for the trip. That will be a useful device, I’m sure.
9:10am- stop in Susanville, CA for breakfast. 230 miles gone, through the mountains of northern California. Susanville is as the base of the mountains. Last time, we saw the sun going down as we traveled on these. Today, the sun was rising up over the frost covered everything. If it was possible to be more beautiful than last time, this was the way. Absolutely amazing. Stunning.
12pm(ish)- though still having a quarter tank of gas, we decide to stop and fill up. Because it’s Nevada- and who knows when the next gas station will be! Signs literally saying “no services for 60 miles” are up everywhere.
7:45pm(Mountain Time)- we stop at Park City, Utah for the evening. The sun is just about to go down and the low gas light has been on for a few miles. So it’s time to stop. We saw a sign that I-80 is closed at Evanston- on the UT/WY border. So, I checked it out on the internet- there’s this storm going across the country that’s in Wyoming. Tomorrow, it looks as though it may be ok, but… we don’t really know. Instead of staying an extra day in Chicago, we may stay an extra day in/around Salt Lake City (and Park City).
A little more recap of the day. Nevada is just as I remembered it. These beautiful mountains that we get close to and go around, but so much flat desert. It’s a high desert running over 4,000 feet. There’s a LOT more snow on most of the mountains this time than last, but none on the ground. Which is totally cool. So, for Luke- I know why when we drove into Nevada it seemed as though we were going up and up and up forever. There are 2 summits between the UT/NV border and Wells, where we stayed the night. One of them is 5900 feet and the other is 6900. Holy Crap!
We saw, but didn’t visit, our favorite tiny town- Mill Creek, NV. Population of 29. and all of them work in the gas station/convenience store/subway/mini-casino/hotel. And the house in the middle of nowhere about a quarter mile off the highway. We saw that, too.
This time, we got to see the salt flats in Utah. They’re pretty neat to see coming down out of Nevada, but… they’re nothing too special. Also, we didn’t realize last time, but we were weaving around mountains for about 60 miles outside of Salt Lake City until getting to the flats. We also saw the Great Salt Lake- a pretty spectacular sight to see.
Well… keep checking back- I intend to keep this running daily at the end of each day. As long as the weather cooperates tomorrow, we’re going to finish Utah, get through Wyoming and hopefully into Nebraska.
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