Day 5: Laramie, Wyoming to Lehi, Utah.
Pace: An easy 6 hours of driving.
Rations: We survived off the hotel breakfast all the way until Lehi. Woohoo!
We arrived in Lehi on Saturday afternoon and honestly I can't remember a thing about our drive from Laramie. I think maybe we stopped at a rest area? And I learned how to use the engine brakes on those hills from Park City into SLC? I really don't recall. Everything has blended together.
I can't believe it took us 5 days/4 nights to drive from New York to Utah. That seems so much longer than 4 days/3 nights. But we got by with only one night in a hotel, which was nice. One benefit of moving so much is that you meet people who end up all over the country (and world) so you always have a friend just off the highway.
Looking back, I think our trip went really super well until we left Nauvoo. After that, there was the wrong turn into Missouri, and then the detour, and then the detour-detour, and meanwhile Nebraska and Wyoming were still stretched out wide in front of us. It was daunting, and we never did get in a solid 14-hour day to cut the trip down a bit.
We still have some driving to do - we will head up to Idaho for a few days soon. Then we still need to drive up to Portland to visit my family and catch our flight to Dubai. Let's hope the memory of 38-something hours of driving has faded somewhat by the time we take those road trips.
Lastly, I would like to state for the record that I personally drove 36 of those hours mentioned above. But. Jeremy had to take care of the kids while I did it so really, I think he had the harder job.
That is all.
WOW. I'm so glad that you made it in one piece (well, in several whole pieces)!
ReplyDeleteI, too, prefer to drive rather than wrangle the kids. I find very few things less appealing than entertaining children in the confined space of a car.