1st stop RA at Evanston, WY

2nd stop Loves in Wamsutter

3rd stop at Iron Skillet /Petro in Laramie

4th stop at RA in Pine Bend, WY

5th stop in Ogallala, NE. Walmart for fuel, McD's to eat, Quality Inn for the night.

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(Being written up a few days later)

Breakfast, they had a different kind of yogurt I wanted to try ... and then I looked at the date, a week past. So I looked at all the dates, all but one was a week past, and that one was over a month past it's expiration date. I told the staff and they quickly cleared everything out. And when they brought out the 'new' stuff, it was less than a week from being expired.

Rush hour traffic was no worst at 6:30 AM than it is at noon when we usually head through with RV's. A few miles and we are going up the hills and out of the snow. After daylight I am cruising along on the passing lane passing trucks. I'm doing 70 mph but haven't seen a speed limit sign since the speed in the hills was 65. I see a cop in the median but I don't slow down, if I am over, I am 10 over and he already has me and someone else is right on my bumper. As soon as I pass him I see the cops break lights come on, he is putting it in gear. I pull around the truck and slow to 65 mph. 1st the car passes me, and then a truck with the cop right on his tail. I'm coming up on a truck so I pass that and the cop follows me from one lane to the other and back again. FINALLY the cop passes me ... and pulls back into the median. Not sure what is interest was, and I wasn't going to stop and ask. That would have been one more thing to add to this already expensive trip, a speeding (or other) ticket.

Before we left UT, we met three dump truck boxes. Just google 'super sized dump truck boxes' and you will see what I am talking about. Each box had two police escorts in front of it, plus one behind it, plus the two paid escorts. No one was going to pass those loads anytime soon.

No need for fuel yet so we stopped at the RA/Welcome center in Evantson, it is at an exit but on the correct side of the highway and the truck stops are not. 1st stop of the day.

Going past the big dig we got a good look at the digger but I didn't think of it until a few feet before we could see it so no pictures, not much time to second guess at 80 mph.

2nd stop is the Love's in Wamsutter, not our favorite place but it is two hours and we need a quick break. Easy in and out.

High wind warning and we are rocking, even with a car. Gust's to 60+ but we don't see many pulled over to wait it out. Three days of this is what I think BB said. Lots of semi's in the ditch somewhere, I don't remember now if it was here or not until NE. But there was one about every 10 miles for an hour or so.

At 80 ... OK, with the wind, the variable got down to 45 so so did we ... in a car. Still in places the trucks were passing us at closer to 80 mph. Anyways ... at 80 mph we are stopping every 160 miles instead of very 100 miles like we do in the RV's which kind of throws us off.

3rd stop is at Laramie at the Petro / Iron Skillet. I never leave hungry but almost everything is Mexican and hot Mexican today. No good deserts either, and not my usual favorites on the salad bar. Still beats another McD's. In this parking lot there were a few transporters pulling travel trailers that were not risking it, we did see a few that did risk it.

4th stop at the Pine Bend RA/Welcome center in WY. Again it is at an exit but on the correct side of the highway.

I don't remember when and where but we have seen a lot of transporters this trip, and in all kinds of rigs. Not too many RV's but lots of other kinds of things.

5th and final. We make it to Ogallala and again we are having to slow down to get the mileage range up where we can make it. 1st stop is Walmart for fuel, it's a couple cents cheaper than anyone else. Then the drive through at McD's, then the Quality Inn for the night. I really need to read when I am signing for.

This place only has less than a half dozen cars in the lot and no more in the morning when we go for breakfast.

-0- on the board tonight.

Not sure what or where but yesterday and today seemed like non-stop events to write about while I was driving, now I remember very few.