But how I do not know.
I am in Evanston, Wyoming, about 794 miles from home. I REALLY wanted to get to Utah and as a long shot drive to Idaho yesterday, but if I have a breaking point, I hit it yesterday. I figured out I was doing really well time wise Saturday, so I decided to get a room. I was in North Platte, NE and it was about 10 pm central time, so I tried 2 hotels and both were sold out, so I drove more.
The rest stops in NE and WY are VERY small, so 20 semis at max and if you don’t have room, you must keep going, so I had to keep going….and going…. I tried a few other hotels and finally in Sidney, NE I tried to get some food at a Perkins since they are open 24/7…. unless it is in Nebraska. So I called around and all the hotels are full and then I am told it is due to Sturgis.
!*!… not what I wanted to hear.
I did find a Days Inn in Kimball, NE which is 20 miles from Wyoming. Very nice room, better then you would expect, but no food since its Nebraska and people go to bed at sun down. I slept, but not a “quality†sleep.
So I decided to find a “Mom and Pops†diner and eat and then go.
“Hello, this is Nebraskaâ€
So I drove to Wyoming, which is just like Nebraska and has no food. I grabbed a sandwich at a gas station and drove and drove. My goal as I mentioned was Utah or even ID, but I was just too tired, too hungry and I soon realized I wasn’t going to make it to either. There was a bill board for a Best Western for over 300 miles for here in Evanston, the closer I got, the more I saw, well over 300 signs for this one hotel. It has a bar and serves food, so this became my new goal.
Mountains and hills and more hills, and this truck is total crap on inclines of any kind, I go from 60 mph to 30 mph.
VERY long drive, the longest 419 miles I ever drove and this is the worse day of driving I have ever had. So I finally craw here and find the Best Western has no parking for trucks.
Figures.
But there was another Days Inn a mile away and this is where I am. Not the best bed, a dang “Murphy bed†of all things and it’s soft as hell, but I got a room.
I was VERY edgy and I could easily see my getting violent on a drop of a pen. I had to force myself not to kill the people in line in front of me, I was stressing big time there would be no rooms, and even though it was 5 pm local time, I just had to get off the road.
But I got a room and got to chill out. I got some crappy pizza that I hardly ate, but some really good chicken wings that I wish I got more of, I ate all 10 in record time. I then took a long hot shower, and talked to Pauline for 30 mins or so and took 2 full PM’s and went to bed at 7:30 pm local time and slept solid to 1:30 am, and then on/off to 8 am, mostly more sleep, but the waking up every hour or so is my norm anyway, so I got 12 hours of good rest.
Right now I am going to go shower and grab some food and I plan to leave here around 10 am and drive to an hour or so outside Gresham, either another room or a rest stop, doesn’t matter, but I plan to arrive home at noon Tuesday.
More coming in a day or so.
pleased
exhausted