Doesn’t rain much here…. but when it does, it rains seriously hard. Over the last few days, some places in Utah/Nevada got several inches in a day – a 1000 year event. You can’t drive from SLC to Las Vegas right now without a major detour, since I-15 is wahed out in some places. When …
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Falling Rocks
You know those signs on the highway saying “watch out for falling rocks”? Yeah, here they mean it. Note size of rock versus size of backhoe…. Not sure if a train could get by or not. However, this seems to happen frequently enough that the rail company has a special train just for this: Excavator …
Houdini
This was one of our most gracious hosts for a few weeks.
Pics from the road
Interstate in Colorado…. 3 lanes, low traffic, and actually *paved*. Scenic too. We’re not in Kansas any more. Final statistics: 2392 miles at 58.4 MPH = 41 hours driving. 28.7 miles per gallon average (on the big car, not sure about the little tractor that kept tailing me). Gas is a lot cheaper in the …
52 MPG
Who says 400 horsepower V8 engines can’t get good gas mileage? Take that, Prius owners.