Sunday, 05 August 2007

• Day 3

  Bob writes

   

  Sunday morning brought some great surprises. We awoke in Evanston Wyoming around 9 am. We realized in the daylight the hotel we were at was worse in the light than in the dark.  Jen wanted to fill out a comment card but then they would have our address, and I shuddered. We then went to fill up our gas tank and we asked the locals for a good place for breakfast. We were offered the Crazy Horse saloon or the bowling alley. We decided to buy Doritos and Poweraid and drive another 150 miles before eating anything substantial.

  I have been pleasantly surprised how at almost every mile, even in the remotest parts of Wyoming and Idaho, we have had cell coverage. A far cry from ten years ago.  We have even had several FM stations to choose from despite the fading in and out every few miles.

  We ended up in Cheyenne around 3 PM. We visited the capital building for some sightseeing and decided to check out the local mall. I went to get a haircut while Jen went clothes shopping. I asked what there was to do in Cheyenne and none of the locals seemed to know. They appear to just exist.

  We decided to head down to Westminster Colorado around 5 PM because it looked more interesting and we wanted to get a fresh start to meet Jean and Julie from the Steven’s Johnson support group. Although I had contracted the syndrome over 35 years ago I have never met anyone else in person who survived the disease. To learn more about it go to http://www.sjsupport.org.

  We are going to discuss how technology may be able to help them in getting the word out about the syndrome in ways they may have not thought were possible.

  We found a much better hotel tonight and we are looking forward to a good night’s sleep.

   

  Jen writes:

  The pictures of the scenery came out a lot better than I had expected! You know, sometimes the pictures make everything seem more magical than when you're hot and tired and trying to deal with discourteous drivers...

  The little towns are so cute! Sometimes we pass by hamlets on hills that look like the Christmas town setting, little houses peppering the hills. I don't know how or why someone would make so many houses in the middle of nowhere, but anyway. I wish I had gotten my camera out soon enough to show everybody these hamlets.

  Overall, after three days out in the west, I've decided I love Chicago. A lot of the people out here are really nice, very small-town people, but this is so not the life for me. I'll take Walmart over the Loaf N Jug any day. Which reminds me, I spotted my first Walmart in the west today as we came into Westminter. It excited me. It was almost as exciting as the license plate that came flying off a car today and hit the bottom of our bumper.

  Tonight we had a much better time finding a hotel. Last night we drove 100 miles and visited/called about 10 different hotels until we found the place we slept at last night. Tonight, the first hotel we stopped at we got a room!  Yay!

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