A warm and cool morning, around 3°C. We headed out in the Interstate and immediately started climbing up to 8,640 ft. After spending about 10 or so miles above 8000 ft we started a gradual descent over the next few hundred miles down to about 900 ft. There was very little in the way of outstanding scenery, the further east we got, the more cows we saw! Given we had 660 miles to travel to day, the usual fuel consumption measures were thrown out of the window, and we cruised at 75 MPH for most of the day. Tomorrow is about the same distance but we seem to have said good by to the 75 and 80 MPH limits, and come down to 65 and 70 limits, so it will take a little longer.
A coupe of things I didn’t mention yesterday; one stretch of the I80 went 48 miles in a straight line both horizontally and vertically i.e. no bends and no hills…. very boring! The other occurred at check-in at the hotel, an elderly lady was complaining at the front desk, but all I heard was “I don’t want my body abused like that” and she was wanting to speak to the manager. Me being me said we’d like to check-in provided the hotel didn’t abuse my body. The clerk rolled his eyes, and when the lady was out of earshot, explained that she was complaining that the person in the next room was using a smart phone and the noises that it was making was causing bruising on her arm!
Time to sleep.