In our 12 hours of driving today, we went through a 33
degree temperature fluctuation. This
morning, we work up in Rawlins, Wyoming to F excitedly proclaiming that it was
snowing. Less excited, at 5:13 am, we looked over and saw indeed there was a
slight dusting on the ground.
After a
typical hotel breakfast, our 4th in as many days, we packed the car
at a chilling 24 degree morning. In the
course of the morning as we traveled through the desolate plains of Wyoming, we
dropped to 18 degrees, of course when the kid’s had a pee emergency so we had
to hightail it out of the car in bitter cold with insane winds into a rest stop
bathroom. Not a trip I wish to
repeat.
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| Ominous Road Warnings |
Overall, our drive today was
like driving on the moon. We expected to
be driving through mountain passes all day as we went from Wyoming to the
Oregon border, but instead were mostly driving on flat roads with rocky
outcroppings around us.
As we left
Wyoming and entered into Utah, we finally got to go through an exciting
mountain tunnel and had a bit of nice mountain viewing but that was really
it. F was excited by the baby mountains
and the big mountains which he called “mommies” for some reason.
Sick of cold cheese, ham and crackers for lunches, we
decided to stop for a hot lunch about an hour north of Salt Lake City. We choose a dive diner which had the BEST
chili we have ever eaten. Amazing,
meaty, beany and smoky chili. The clientele
were all hardened ranchers wearing Stetsons, spurs and worn jean. Sounds like a romance novel fantasy but reality
is a lot more grizzled with silky, feminine looking scarves.
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| L eating lunch |
After lunch, we continued driving on the moon getting a few
more mountain sightings in the distance.
We
made a bit of a detour in Twin Springs, Idaho for a snack/coffee stop and got
our first “scenic overlook” at a bridge over the snake river. Heights are not my cup of tea so with
knocking knees, I took a quick peak and picture and let the boys check out the
view a bit longer and do boy things like pee on big rocks.
Driving through Boise, we hit our first traffic jam of the
journey, temperature then at 51 degrees but luckily cleared out of it quickly to arrive in
Ontario, Oregon at 7 pm , Mountain Time.
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| night driving is not conducive to state sign pics |
Amazing Mexican food in our bellies, we are no longer just a haggard
shell of our former selves.
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| the one different thing about our Oregon hotel room |
Miles: 639
Hours: 12 (had an hour lunch break that slowed us down
today)
States: 4
Bathroom Accidents: 1 (this was before we left the hotel when
L peed out of his pjs)
Coffee Stops: 1
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