dia numero dos

dia numero dos

number of hours driven: 13
states crossed: 2.5

Long day. I am grateful for another amazing drive, for the health of my body and my car. Right now the former is in worse shape than the latter. Go Black beauty go! (that is my Honda's new name!!!! after 4 years she finally found a name in Wyoming)

Wyoming was so beautiful i kept thinking, "i can't believe they waste all this beauty on the freeway travelers. Thanks to the information provided by rest stops i have learned that i have been following the Oregon Trail and the Lincoln highwa. Two historic transcontinental paths. The oregon trail, of course, was carved by the wagon trains of the pioneers and the Lincoln highway carved out by another kind of pioneer the sightseeing kind. The lincoln highway was America's first transcontinental auto road and, i guess, was the brain child of the Henry B. Joy. I had to give him the thumbs up and a thanks as I admired his monument, pictured here, at a rest stop that was also the highest point on the highway. I was also able to accumulate some good driving karma by tossing in some change upon ole Henry's monument. (I assumed that's why my fellow travelers where throwing their pennies in there).


breath taking sight #3 Wyoming Mesa
Coming out of the mountains around Salt Lake was all up and down, up and down, hills and mountains. As I summated one of these hills what lay infront of me me resembled the dress shirt of a giant. It was a massive, green, long sleeved, botton up shirt and it was stretched out on the hill in front of me. The four lanes of east and west bound traffic, the shirt's front, and the dotted lines of the road, its buttons. I dropped the car into a lower gear for the steep grade. As i summated, this shirt, i expected the other side to be a downslope. Instead what i found was that all breath left had left my body as I saw, not another side or a down hill, but, across! This was a giant mesa! On top was a paradise of a green peaceful meadows where sheep grazed. I felt like i had just discovered a new earth. I stared. shaking my head in amazement.