Windy Day Across Wyoming and Utah

Today was the longest driving day of our entire trip--433 miles!  It was day 75 of our trip. We have been chased west by winter storm warnings, freezing temperatures, and strong winds.  Over the past three days, our phones have been sending out weather alerts for the places we just left, so we are getting west in the nick of time.

Dodging the Snow in Wyoming

I-84 Tunnels Today

This was the second very windy day driving in a row.  We bucked 30 to 40 mph winds all day, and while it wasn't any fun, the RV and Toad are driving and towing just fine. This was the emptiest highway we have seen on the entire trip. Seems like we only shared the road with trucks today, double trailers and a few Fed-Ex triple trailers. Oh and we met RV's going south or like us going home to Oregon and Washington.

Eastern Utah Scenery

We made the decision today to push further west than our "rule of two" (two hundred miles) calls for because of the night time low temperatures that we would have had to endure.  We aren't worried about keeping warm, but don't want to freeze any water lines, and we can't really winterize the RV and still use it.   So, what to do?  Keep driving--443 miles--twice our average northwest to Mountain Home, Idaho.  We are camped in a super nice campground (9.5 ratings on RV Park Reviews) that is affiliated with Desert Gold in Brenda, AZ where cousin Gordon and Sandy Kelly spend their winters.  They are expanding the RV park here with another 35 new sites. We can see why.  Every site has level concrete pads, table, trees and other amenities that are are great!  In some ways, it is too bad we are only spending one night here.

Welcome to Idaho

Our twenty-eight state adventure is coming to an end soon, and we added the last new state today at a Utah rest area as we descended down into the Salt Lake basin. Then, headed northwest on the beginning of Interstate I-84, which we will follow all the way into Portland, or as ET said...HOME!

Utah Was State Number Twenty-Eight of trip

This park is also quieter, as we are farther (two miles) from the freeway, so no rumbling truck noise. From here we have a much shorter drive to Pendleton for our last night away from home.  We think that we will try the Pendleton Wild Horse Casino RV park and have a nice dinner at the casino--if we can find a non-smoking section.

Neil and Pamela