Much of the rest of the drive from the California/Nevada border to Chicago were pretty boring. For Wed, Sept 3 and Thurs, Sept 4, I drove about 10-11 hours each day (on 3-4 hour shifts depending on my mood). Interstate-80 is a pretty boring stretch of highway pretty much all the way until I got closer to Chicago. I mean, Salt Lake City and Cheyenne are not exactly large metropolitan cities.

So basically, I listened to a lot of music (picking out 2-3 CDs at every stop) and ate almost exclusively at Subway (fast food without the grease) and random snacks (chips, candy, Gatorade) to keep me going. Incidentally, I stopped at Evanston, Wyoming (on the border of Utah and Wyoming) and Adair, Iowa (about 1 hour west of Des Moine); the latter stay at the “Budget Inn” happens to be (from later discussion) to be the place that Lea and her family often stayed. Very small world (or we are all just good bargain hunters as that place was quite inexpensive).

Even though the drive was boring (or perhaps because it was boring), I did not have too many “close calls” on the highway. I mean you pretty much just stay in your lane and switch when you had to pass someone. The only real oddity on the road was an odd detour off the freeway for about 15 miles in Western Nebraska. One line road with trucks sure is one way to kill your miles per hour average. But all in all, I did about 900 miles on these first two days and set myself nicely to get into Chicago at about noon on Friday, Sept. 5, as I planned.

Part three should arrive before this Friday…when I move to Chicago (maybe)…

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