Trip Summary: Mileage

Boston (MA) to Ballston Spa (NY): (12/26/08)

I don't believe that I didn't write the mileage down! Aaaahhh! I'll have to do it all over again... But Triptik says it should be around 194 miles. Fine!

Ballston Spa (NY) to Burton (MI): (12/27/08)

Around 676.7 miles

All the way from Boston, for sure, 870.7

Burton (MI) to Madison (WI): (12/29/08)

490.3 miles

Total: 1361 miles (only 2000 more to go! wooohooo!)

Madison (WI) to Lincoln (NE): (12/30/08)

485.7 miles

Total: 1846.7 miles (are we there yet, there yet, there yet???)

Lincoln (NE) to Denver (CO): (12/31/08)

491 miles

Total: 2337.7 miles (ah! Finally the Rockies!)

Denver (CO) to Boise (ID): (01/02/09)

860.8 miles

Total: 3198.5 miles (big stretch... there yet, please?)

Boise (ID) to Newport (OR): (01/03/09)

605.2 miles 

I'M IN MY NEW HOME TOWN!

GRAN TOTAL: 3803.7 miles!!!!!

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!

I drove 71.2 more miles than what AAA had in my TripTik. I think that's within an accepted level of error (and me getting lost, missing turns, exits...). That's actually pretty good! :)

DAY EIGHT: I made it to Boise, ID!

The longest drive of the trip so far... I left Golden, CO, at 7 AM and got to Boise, ID, at 9 PM. I got all sorts of weather today: sunny, windy, cloudy, rainy, snowy, cloudy again, starry night... I also got some nice pictures along the way but I'll probably post it tomorrow, or after, when I get to Oregon. I still have another long day of drive ahead of me.

The good thing is that the weather is looking good! The next front is waiting for me to get to my new home! I'm still deciding if I should go through Portland or cross Oregon State... We'll see how the weather and the roads look tomorrow morning.

Rain in Utah!

Welcome to Utah!

I wish I had time to stop in Utah. I actually thought I would be going closer to Salt Lake City but instead, as you can see on the map, I veered north towards Idaho. Utah greeted me with rain, but the mountains were all covered wit snow. Beautiful!

 This was the only other ABF container truck that I saw during my trip. Would this one be my container? The only thing I know for sure is that next time, I will run away from them as fast as I can!!! Scammers!

 I wish I was on the other side of the road to take a better look at the lake... did I just drive by the Great Salt Lake? The fact that it was raining didn't help either...

 And this is what I saw on my side of the road. 

 Still I kept trying to see the "Lake"...

The road ahead is not looking too good, weather-wise...

 I wonder why there is a place called Snowville...?
 And just when I thought I was free of bad weather and the skies were going to clear up... Wait for the next posting!

Beautiful Wyoming!

For all its bare landscape, with endless roads, and distant mountains, snow on the ground, high winds, Wyoming was truly beautiful. You can have a glimpse through my pictures! :)

 Snow fences all over the place, on the side of I80.

Another curious name... 

I want a Happy Lizzy town, country, world, the Happy Lizzy Universe! hahahahahaha

Mysteries of foreign lands: whose statue is that, hiding behind the bushes (actually, a tree)???

An ABF truck!!! The first one I had seen since I left Boston! Would it be my trailer, with my belongings? 

Conditions can get pretty bad in Wyoming. The reason for my assumption were the signs saying I80 could be closed down (and I had just crossed the border coming from Colorado!)! I don't really want to know how it is like when such conditions happen! I already got high winds, around 40 mph, at certain parts of this road, with alerting signs and all. I also noticed the massive snow walls, or fences, or whatever you want to call it, on the side of the road... I really don't want to be caught in a blizzard around here... Fortunately the sun was shining most of the time!

I saw lots of windmill farms... uhm... I wonder why... may be because it is usually very windy here? :P

 

And I drove... and kept driving... and driving some more...

Look at that beautiful front cutting across the sky in the distance! It was very dramatic and beautiful!

And what do you find in the middle of nowhere?

The big M is everywhere!

Endless roads... Can you see how flat it is?

But there's also some interesting reliefs.

And soon going into Utah... In the direction of the ugly clouds!