Monday-Aug.25, 2008

Monday Aug. 25, 2008

63,499 miles on Trailblazer

8:00 a.m. - On the road after getting gas at $3.89 a gallon and also some ice. It is a beautiful morning again with a temp of about 60 degrees and sunny blue skies. The days have been just beautiful so far, especially the mornings. We are hoping to get to Nebraska tonight.

12:30 p.m. -We stopped for gas and food and we also crossed the Continental Divide at 7250 ft. around Laramie, WY with 82 degrees and sunny. We are about 50 miles west of Cheyenne, WY with lots of cowboys here. We are seeing some trees for the first time since we left Oregon. What a pleasant scene it is. Idaho was farming, sagebrush for miles and miles on both sides of the road.

2:20 p.m. - We crossed the Nebraska state line at 83 degrees. This is a really boring drive for both of us. Nothing again except more sagebrush, don't know what happened to the farm lands that are suppose to be here.

3:15 p.m. - We are passing a Cabela's store here in Sidney, Nebraska. We have gone to this one before and it is a lot like the one in Michigan. Frank did not want to stop here this time. We are 118 miles from North Platte, Neb.

5:15 p.m. - We pulled into the motel at Ogallala, Nebraska which is about 53 miles west of North Platte, Nebraska. We decided to stay here instead of North Platte because of time. It is a good time to stop since we are both tires and in about 40 miles we will be in a different time zone of one hour ahead and it will be close to 7:00 p.m. by the time we settle in and then have to go and eat. We went out to have dinner and relax a bit in the motel. We will start out tomorrow again nice and early. There is suppose to be a thunderstorm coming through here tonight. Hope not, for Abby's sake. We are about 1/2 way to Michigan.

Drove 433 miles today