Drive to Texas

June 25-27, 2012 

 I plotted out several routes to get to Texas. The plan was to take our time and take lots of breaks to stretch our legs. I was also hoping to avoid any of the seriously bad weather that had been plaguing Texas. Every evening I would work with my weather apps to determine where we'd go next.

On Friday we left work early and headed for Wyoming. We were only going to drive for 3 hours to get to Kemmerer. I've never stopped there before and it was a great little town. We stopped at a rock shop cause I'm always interested in new rocks

This shop was all kinds of amazing: https://wyomingfossils.com/ 

The next day we headed for the outskirts of Denver. And there we found out that locating a Red Lobster was going to be harder than we though. This was during the lull in Covid so we thought it would be okay (and time proved it was) to eat in the restaurant. We circled one location a number of times before realizing that it had not only closed but had already been taken over by another restaurant. Eventually we found one further away and YUM fish.

That evening while looking at the weather I could see a line of severe storms lining up to get us if we took 2 more days to get there. Our only hope was a brief break in storms the next evening. We got up early and skedaddled. We got into Texas on 287 and drove right between large storm clouds with lightning and rain in the near distance on both the left and right sides of the car. Phew, made it. 

 Shanna's travel companion

 

The funniest thing about this trip is that Idaho was about to get slammed with a monster 102 degree heatwave. Texas rarely got above 80 something. In July. Crazy.