24 hours of Driving

We have been on the road just over 24 hours now since leaving Las Vegas yesterday morning. We have made it through three states and are almost to Washington which will be our last state before crossing into Canada. We reached Utah just before supper yesterday.

The views were gorgeous with snow covered mountains that followed the road.

There were a few times that we weren’t sure how the road cut a path through the mountains, so we took turns guessing where we would pass through. Even with the snow it hasn’t been that cold. When we stopped for supper we decided it was probably right around 60degrees. It was a little chilly but with a jacket on it wasn’t bad.

We had hoped to have supper with one of S friends from junior high, however he was sick and couldn’t make it. We did eat with his friend’s parents though who were able to catch S up on how things had been going. His friend also has two children now close to age of our girls. It is also neat to me, when friends grow up and have kids at the same time.

Leaving Salt Lake City we took a slight detour through Brigham City, which is where S and his friend lived when they were younger. S showed me some areas that he remembered from his childhood and areas that had changed drastically over the years.

We reached Idaho around midnight last night.

S woke me up in time to take the picture of the sign however with as dark as it was I missed all the scenery and slept through most of the state. We stopped around 5am just outside of Boise. Scott got a few hours of sleep and by the time the sun started coming through the windows in the van we were awake again and getting ready to hit the road. We were only about 45min from the state line.

Oregon has had the same beautiful snow covered mountain views.


We have seen more livestock wandering free range across the mountains. There have been peaceful lakes on top of mountains and old buildings that are starting to fall apart.

As I started this post S even got my attention and I almost missed a herd of horses that were running across the mountain next to us. The pictures didn’t quite capture them jumping and running as well as I would have liked but I was in a hurry to just get some pictures before they passed.

You can almost see the white finishing a jump.

Then one of the brown ones was starting a jump. Trees blocked my view after that.

We just passed a sign that said, “45th parallel, half point between the equator and north pole.” I wish I had gotten a picture but I was typing. So we are still in Oregon about 7hours from Seattle. We still haven’t decided if we will stop there for the night or try to continue on to Dawson Creek, Canada. Dawson Creek should be just over 800miles or about 13hours from Seattle.