Wyoming

We took a three day road trip from Oregon back to Colorado this week (a lot like the one we took in November). We were a little nervous about the weather since parts of the west have gotten a lot of snow in recent days. Our first day we drove from Portland to Mountain Home, Idaho and ran into some snow on the road in the Blue Mountains in Oregon. There wasn't too much and we just drove slowly and made it to Idaho in one piece.
The second day we drove from Mountain Home to Provo, UT. I-15 in Salt Lake had lots of snow on it still and some of the roads in Provo were pretty snowy, but we arrived safely.
The third day we were planning to drive from Provo to Colorado Springs via I-70 (which goes over Vail Summit - 10,000+ ft) but after checking some road conditions, we decided to drive through Wyoming on I-80 instead. We had to back track back up to Salt Lake a little, but it was well worth it. Wyoming was cold COLD and seemed to have no working bathrooms for a lot of the drive, but other than dry snow drifting across the roads, the interstate was clear. I think we're going to go that way all the time. We'll just have to plan ahead about the bathroom thing. :)
Here we are coming into Wyoming. It was snowy! Oh yes, there was snow!

There was some pretty scenery (this might be a last bit of Utah actually) but a lot of it just looked like high desert with some buttes and a lot of snow. We saw a lot of wildlife...things that might be elk, deer, something that looked like a pronghorn and even a wolf or two (or wolf looking animal).

All along 80 through Wyoming there was snow drifting across the road like this. Some places there was so much you couldn't see the road or other cars that well, but it wasn't too bad. We stopped at several rest stops and gas stations where the bathrooms were either closed due to no water or they were so badly backed up they were unusable. It got to be funny after a while...or it would have been funny if I didn't have to go to the bathroom so bad. After driving through a lot of the state we finally found a working bathroom at a Taco Bell in Rawlins, WY. Thanks Taco Bell for your nice facilities.

And we finally made it into Colorado, from the north this time. There was a bit of snow in Colorado, but the interstate was pretty clear. I'm glad we made it here in one piece and that Wyoming was such a gracious host for our road trip...well except for that bathroom thing.

The kids were beat after our long road trip. Actually this picture is from day one of our trip. Currently (on day three) the kids are pestering each other as we try to get them to go to sleep. I can't wait to get settled into our new house where they will have separate rooms!!