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Miles: 450 miles
Time: 7 hours 30 minutes
Back on the long road again, this time
from Ft. Collins to Salt Lake City! Jordan had to go off to work but
Cei and I ventured out into the gray misty morning to have breakfast
at the Wild Boar Cafe. Any place that sells their coffee in small, medium,
large, “bucket” and bottomless refills is clearly the kind of
place I want to frequent often! The breakfast sandwich and the
raspberry white chocolate scone were both very tasty, made all the
better by good company and conversation. :)
The drive itself was a lot of fun, it
was exciting to be back on the road. Northern Colorado was full of
gentle twists and turns up and down rolling hills, and it seemed
shockingly soon when I hit the state line. As I crossed into southern
Wyoming I remembered my giant list of podcasts waiting to be listened
to, so the Splendid Table and ERcast kept me company for a while. I
never knew Wyoming could be so pretty – it really is a very nice
drive along I-80 with a lot of different terrains and landscapes. I
did get a bit of an unpleasant shock when it started snowing.
Snowing! September! Pumping gas in the snow was not something I
expected to be doing quite yet in my trip, but there we have it –
one of the many “firsts” on this trip, September 27th
was the first day I got snowed on.
I arrived in Salt Lake and was welcomed
into the beautiful apartment of Natalia and Ben. Natalia and I were
good friends in high school, we'd stayed in sporadic touch over the
years, and when she got married this summer we got back in closer
touch. At their wedding they kindly invited me to come visit so I
took them up on the offer :) Again with the feeling of “wow, my
friends are adults!”- their apartment is 15 minutes from the
mountains, with beautiful views, lots of space, and is packed full of
books and movies, even Dali the parrot made the trek from Colorado to
live here with them! It's a wonderful place to start their married
life together, they both seem very happy with where they are in their
lives, and of course that makes me incredibly happy for them! After I
lugged my bag inside, Natalia and I went out for Indian and brought
some home for Ben. We all settled in to chat and laugh for the next
few hours with recordings of Dara O'Briain shows (spelled like that,
he's hilarious if you haven't seen him!) before bundling ourselves
off to bed with plans to sleep in nice and late.
Pictures from the day:
Cei and Gnome
Gnome and the "bottomless" coffee at Wild Boar Cafe
I pulled over to program my GPS and saw this
Misty rain in Northern Colorado
First sighting of snow! In Southern Wyoming
Away from the snow by the time I got near the Utah boarder
Wyoming has a good amount of wind power going on, it was nice to see all the turbines
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