Oh Jeezum - now I have to try to remember where I took these pictures! Well I know it wasn't Utah! This was somewhere on route 80 between Salt Lake City, UT and Rock Springs, WY. A neat little (as in short) tunnel we went through. It was a pretty ride yesterday heading east - I did always say Utah was a very pretty state! We seemed to run parallel to train tracks and rivers most of the way - Rick thought it looked like an ad for Lionel Trains that used to be around in the ummmmmmm 50's!! 
So we left the "service" shop we had been at for how many days (?) around 10:30 ish yesterday morning - what a joyous event THAT was. We had a great travel day - all 176 (I think) miles of it which is far more than we like to do but we "lost" so much time there that Rick had a need to try to make it up now! We stayed last night at a KOA "campground" in Rock Springs, WY - I had decided some months ago that I really am not a huge KOA fan anymore - they changed their "reward" system so those of us long time customers don't get the discount we used to get - KOA's tend to be rather expensive anyway, but I just decided to book at that particular one - it was easy on and off the highway - that's about all it had going for it. 
There is an Elks Lodge down the street about five miles but unfortunately they don't have any rv facilities - we've sort of missed staying at lodges along the way but UT and WY did not have many available so we are back to private campgrounds for a while I guess. We did, obviously, enjoy a couple hours at the lodge last night - what a beautiful old building - HUGE building - that Lodge is - one of the members took this lovely photo of yours truly happy couple on the second floor balcony - where the members lounge is.
So bright and early - 9:30 AM which IS bright and early for us ~ we headed out of Rock Springs and traveled 231 miles (WOWWWWWW) up to Casper along some of the most beautiful roads we've been on . we got off interstates for a change. I took over 250 pictures but ended up deleting probably 3/4 of them because they either had mirrors or window frames in them or huge smooshed bugs that I don't think anyone would think enhanced any of the beauty along the way so see I think of blog readers - sure wish I knew if anyone likes these pictures or not but only Ms Bethalene leaves us comments so I go on assumptions here! Anyway, rambling along ...... if you are able to double click on the photo with the highway sign above please do so - there is an antelope there - I think, but am not certain - that perhaps Wyoming is where the deer and the antelope play!
Not to mention where the beautiful mountains are too - along with the North Platte River.....Gorgeous, gorgeous travel along this route. It seemed like around every corner we would oooh and aaaah more than the last. I don't remember Wyoming being this beautiful when we were out here for rally week a few years ago but then again we were in the very north east corner of the state and at the moment we are in pretty much the center - don't know if that makes a huge difference or not.
We are now at the Casper KOA - the only place I was able to find that had a space for us tonight - it seems to be a decent place and we'd even like to extend a night or two but they are booked! So much for gas prices influencing peoples travel plans I guess. Speaking of which we paid the bargain price of $4.609 for deseil fuel today - about 15 cents less expensive than it was in Utah.
So unless we can extend here tomorrow we will be heading either to Buffalo, WY about 115 miles away or to Gillette, WY about 175 miles away then on to Spearfish/Sturgis, SD (our home state!!) within a couple days. I am really looking forward to being back in the Spearfish area again and damn it the bikes will come out of the trailer at last - tendinitis or no tendinitis ......
That's all for now folks.........
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