T +3 - The Eagle is hovering
I was planning to do two hard days of driving and a light day today.
With all of the other projects, I was very fatigued on Sunday and almost fell asleep at the wheel (talk about an adrenaline rush) so I went to ground in Ontario, Oregon (I had been planning to get to Ogden). Memo to self, when stopping at the
Flying J truckstop, do not order the turkey dinner. The menu advertised that they cooked a bird every day. I am not believing this but I
was looking forward to a nice sliced turkey breast loaf but what arrived on my plate was the scraps left over after the breast meat was cut out. I do not mind a bit of dark meat but stringy pieces of 98% dark meat and gristle and sinew doth not a dinner make. This is the same mechanically separated meat that I can buy for $3/lb at my local grocery wholesaler for making turkey soup.
But I digress...
Got up at 6AM and on the road by 7:30 - breakfast at a decent truckstop. Pancakes, eggs and bacon. Got the ballast for a long day.
I drove through Boise, Idaho; Ogden, Utah; Cheyenne, Wyoming and then down to Denver, used the toll road to get around it to Route 70 and started heading East. I stopped for diesel at Limon, CO and called Jen. I was planning then to get to somewhere in Kansas but talked with the gas station person, learned that the CO/KA border was 150 miles away and decided to do another 6AM morning.
Woke up, grabbed the 'continental breakfast' from the no-tell mo-tell and hit the road. From Limon, drive to Kansas and hauled ass along Route 70. Swung through Abaline but did not stop -- D. D. Eisenhower has always been a personal hero of mine and Abilene is a gorgeous small city -- I will be coming back through here on my way back. Also Alma, KA -- went there for a tank of diesel and I could live there (except for the heat)
Came home to roost in Cape Giradeaux -- Memphis tomorrow morning and more later...
Posted by DaveH at June 1, 2010 8:56 PM