We woke up about 7:30. We decided to do pet stuff as well as breakfast because we weren't going to leave right away. Even then, we were out about 8:30.
It was pouring rain when we left. The road ran through a deep canyon. It was very picturesque, but I had to pay attention to the road. It was very curvy. Eventually the rain stopped. Then the climb started. To make it even more fun we had a strong headwinds.
The climb was to about 8500 feet. Between the steep incline, the altitude, and the headwind at one point the best the truck could do was 40 mph. Mileage was terrible. It was so bad that we stopped after 60 miles to fill up. We still got 8.5 mpg. I thought that was pretty good.
The rest of the trip was mainly a boring drive through a high plateau. We did go through a couple of podunk towns and one fairly good sized one. It must have had at least 8 stop lights.
We were originally going to stop at Green River, but the park wouldn't tell us if they had a space, go figure. So Ellen found a place in Rock Springs. It was only a little after 12 when we got there, so we decided to go another 100 miles to Evanston.
The extra 100 miles wasn't a big deal since it was all freeway. I did have to play you pass me, I'll pass you with several trucks. There was also 8 miles of single lane following some asshole doing 35 to 40.
We got to Evanston at 2:30. We quickly set up and went into town. They had a roundhouse that had been made into an exhibit. We found it easily, but the visitor center was closed and the roundhouse was being used for a private party. We drove the old downtown instead, but it was really uninteresting.
We ended up just getting fuel and going back to the trailer. We surfed for awhile and then Ellen fixed a really good dinner. We had BLT's, beans, red jello, and cake.
After dinner was surfing and TV. The park has really filled up. It will be nice to just have to go 250 miles tomorrow.
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