Trip Update
Well I wasn’t able to leave on the 8th as I had planned, there was complications thanks to my son being difficult. So I left Columbia, MO around 1:30pm on the 9th and made it to Lincoln, Nebraska that night around 9pm. The I-29 interchange to I-80 in Nebraska was just nuts but I got through it.
This morning I left Lincoln around 8am got through the rest of Nebraska and into Wyoming today. But the weather in Wyoming was not very cooperative today. I went through Medicine Bow National Park and in the distance I could see the clouds were getting darker and not very friendly looking but after you pass Laramie, WY there is nothing around until Rawlings so there was no choice but to keep going. It had started to rain as I was coming down out of Medicine Bow National Park and when I got down it really got bad. The radio kept giving out National Services Advisory which was Sever Thunder Storms Warnings and Tornado Watch and I’m thinking great I spent 10 years in Missouri without seeing a tornado and now I will probably see on in Wyoming out in the middle of nowhere lol. But at least I didn’t see one of those today but the storm was bad enough, I could barely see the tail lights of the car in front of me.
After that storm passed and I was able to pick up speed again I could make up some time as I wanted to get as close to Utah as possible but Mother Nature had other plans as the closer I got to Rawlings, WY another storm was brewing and it was after 6pm and I thought this is a good place to stop for the night. So tomorrow I will have a lot of driving to do as I really need to get to Reno tomorrow.
Are you driving by yourself? Drive safe! Get plenty of rest.