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Trevor's Graduation Trip 2010

Salt Lake City, Provo Jul 14, 2010

July 14 Cheyenne, WY & on the way to Salt Lake City, UT We thought we’d sleep in this morning. Between revellie and the landscapers with weed eaters behind the camper, they woke us out of a sound sleep. We decided we’d take our time to clean the camper and reorganize a bit since the boys left. Sure do miss them already. We got everything done and left at 11 am. Karl came back from taking the trash and I asked him to check on the couple over there banging on their tow bar. I had the windows open while cleaning and heard him banging and saw him under it, over it, etc. His wife looked on not knowing what to do. So Karl checked with him and they thought they had it fixed. The guy pulled out ever so slowly while we were hooking up our car and we heard a bang. His car had hit the hitch in the back of their camper. Karl and I went running. He heard it too and stopped. Both ends of the tow bar had sheered off. We told him about all the RV dealerships we had passed yesterday. Thank God they were here in the campground and not on the highway. We talked for a few minutes, made sure they were going to be ok and knew the names of the RV places and they told us to leave. We’ll go as far as we feel like driving today and let the Lord lead. We saw lots of long trains moving east and west. Jimmy had told us that nothing was moving into NE because they had a flood that took out the tracks near Lincoln. We thought we’d get a bad head wind like last time, but instead it was a very strong side wind. Karl said it felt like driving in a hurricane. It was at least 45-60 mph cross winds. The big trucks were having problems too. Jimmy told us that Rt. 80 was closed down this winter twice for over 3 days with the snow build up. We saw them building a lot of snow fences. There were a lot of motorhomes on the road going in both directions and lots of semi’s. We saw several oversized loads carrying the engines of the large wind turbines. Karl looked out the left mirror and our fender was flapping in the wind. He safely pulled over onto the shoulder and we duck taped it. We think the wind got under it and pulled it away from the braces. It feels like its only double back taped to the braces and not glued. We’ll see how long it holds. We don’t think it was caused by the tire hitting us the other day. It was the other side. We’re just glad it didn’t fly off and hit someone else. And we’re ok. We had to stop more often. Karl was getting really tired. We stopped to get fuel at one Flying J at Exit 209 and all the diesel pumps in the RV area were closed. We checked all around the camper and the car like we usually do and everything was holding fine. Not even 2 miles later Karl looked back and the fender was flapping again so we stopped and he was able to pull the whole thing off and put it in the car till we can get it back on. There are no COE parks and no passport (50% off) campgrounds. There are 2 Air Force Bases near Salt Lake City and one Army campground, but nothing for tonight. There’s no way Karl’s going to do another 2-3 hours in this wind. I told him to pull into Little America. I saw a billboard that said RV’s welcome. It’s a hotel, restaurant, truck stop. We pulled in and there were only 2 other campers here at 6 pm. Now there’s over 12. The trucks have a huge separate lot out back because they sleep 8 hours and leave at all different times. So this is perfect for tonight. Fixed dinner and even went back in to look around at the Gift Shops and get a 50 cent soft serve ice cream.

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