Another day at the office ...... in Wyoming

Every time I drive thru Wyoming on I-80 there is ice on the road
So I took a few pictures today ......

Saw a cool wreck when a brand spanking new F450 came barreling
by me pulling a new trailer ..... only to end up doing donuts on the ice
and ending up in the median a few hundred feet in front of me .......

Couldn't get to the camera in time

but I gave them a solid 8

for artistic endeavor out of respect for the Winter Olympics .....

I think they actually hide the snowplows when there is ice
on the road .......


Jim

 

If I was driving that road, I think I would wreck just from insanity. There's not a f**king thing out there!! You must have some GREAT books on tape to handle those days. More power to you!!!

 

Two years ago in January I drove to Reno to pick up a 57 Buick. While driving thru there the thermometer on the mirror read 22 below. The heater was on full blast and we were still cold.A coyote jumped in the rear seat and I asked him where he was going ,he just said " anywhere but here"

 

Truly cool Joe ......

Jim

 

Keep this in the back of your head....I'm still looking for a ride for my deck lid from Winnemucca NV east across I80 to somewhere in the mid-west.

 

Plowing ice covered roads is like running a zamboni on a hockey rink. All it does is give it a nice polish and make it slicker.

 

I can still get that lid to Kansas City for ya.
I'll be at the HAMB drags also if that helps
Fritz

 

Living up here thats a normal thing for or five times a winter.

 

My condolences to anyone that has to drive that route. I drove I80 across Wyoming and back every week for a year. Driving from the East if you don't get blown off the road on Elk Mountain you drive for a couple hundred boring miles and end up in beautiful Rock Springs. It used to be that you had to lock your doors before you pulled into a truck stop because the ******s there were so aggressive they'd jump up on the runnng boards as soon as you parked. Rock Springs may not be the worst place in the United States but I'm sure that you can see the worst place from there.

 

OK, great, it's at Dave's place. When are you p***ing thru there?

 

No it is the worst place. Next to East Saint Louis or something.

 

It is a rather desolate stretch of highway. That and it's 7000ft elevation doesn't help. When going to WyoTech I drove that a section from Laramie to Rawlins alot. Luckily from there things get better, well once your 100mi north of I-80 anyway.