The Wright Stuff: July 2010

What do you get when you take 2 of these...

Plus one of these...

Plus 1,647 miles?

... a whole BUNDLE of MAD CRAZY FUN!

We finally got all of this:

to fit!

YAY! With room to throw all of our cleaning supplies in at the end!

The only problem was the dolly that they gave us for our car had the back 2 wheels dragging and we discovered that since our car is such a "low rider" it wasn't going to work. Of course, we realize this AFTER they are closed, so instead of getting an early start, we got to sleep in until the Budget rental place was open. By 9am we had our new car trailer and we were ready to hit the road!

Are you ready for 30 hours of driving? *serious driving face*

We had just finally crawled to the top of a hill somewhere between Utah and Wyoming at 20mph (in a 65mph zone), barely escaping an overheated engine, just to see this ahead of us:

This is us battling the hill. When I took this picture, we were going a whopping 15 mph. I watched as the cloud shadow overtook and passed our truck.

Beautiful cliff faces

The clouds in Wyoming were stunning! I've never seen anything like them!

This quaint town was the last we would see for a while...

We passed a refinery! I thought the flame was neat.

I think the song "Wide Open Spaces" was written about Wyoming. It was stuck in my head the whole time.

Does anyone know what these partial fences are for? This question kept me busy for hours. I came up with lots of interesting (though none of them convincing) hypotheses. They obviously aren't to keep animals in or out or away from anything, because we saw plenty of cows moseying their way around them.

This one is for Stacey:

Brian kept telling me to check the trailer-- this was my view. I just kept hoping it was still attached!

This pretty much sums up Nebraska:

Who knew that the National Cabella's headquarters are in the middle of nowhere?!

This sunset was so neat, I wish it had come out on the picture!

After our first day of travel, we stopped in North Platte, Nebraska at a tiny hotel. We pulled in and then realized that we couldn't get out. While it is technically possible to back up a truck with a trailer, they told us numerous times to avoid it, and after about 40 minutes of trying to, we knew why. No matter which way we turned the wheel, it seemed like the trailer had a mind of it's own on where it wanted to go. It was impossible. We were both so frustrated and we didn't know what to do, when a lady drove up. She rolled down her window and said "Go Cougars!" She drove around back to see if there was a way we could just pull the truck through and come around on the other side... Luckily, it worked! We probably would've figured it out eventually, but we were so grateful for her help! Unfortunately, we didn't take any pictures of the ordeal, we had our minds on other things.

Day 2

I thought this huge bridge was kind of random.

It's a misty moisty morning!

We saw so many of these! My favorite (I didn't get a picture, some trees were in the way) was painted like a golf ball on a tee!

Wagon Building

"The People of Iowa Welcome you!" --Why, thank you.

We passed a sign saying "road flooded ahead"... they weren't kidding!

We were just glad that it wasn't closed!

I love this picture: doesn't it remind you of the movie "Cars"? I can just imagine the big semi saying "Who do you think you are, parking over with the big boys?"