Day Two

We made it to Ogallala, Nebraska last night at about 3am and were back on the road at about 8:30am. As we were driving across Wyoming last night we were nice and dry, but off to the center left on the horizon there was a spectacular display of lightning that went on for hours. I think that is probably the best you could expect from driving across Wyoming, not that much to see as a rule, so I think we were pretty lucky. Lisa was driving so I really had the best seat in the house.

When we figured we'd had enough driving for one day we called ahead to the hotels at the next exit off I-80 to check prices (windows live search may come from the evil empire, but it's pretty friggin' handy). Holiday inn express had $109/night, no deal there, second call was to the Econo Lodge where they had a reasonable $69 but when we pulled into the lot it was a shithole, no deal. Comfort inn across the street looked nice and were $89 and we were spent so that sounded good. We hit the desk and the guy says he just started an audit on the system and that it would be a couple of minutes before he could get us a room. How many is a couple I asked and was told 20. See ya. Super 8 across the street had $79 rooms and immediate seating ("I only have rooms with two beds, but I'll only charge you for one bed." Does it cost more for two beds? "I'm only charging you for one." that is the point I realized any more engaging this clerk would only make it take longer to get to bed so I dropped it) BOOM! Asleep inside the 20 minute window.

Did you know that Arby's serves breakfast? Not too bad. Sausage egg and cheese biscuit tastes just like McD's, and it may have come from under the heat lamp, but the chocolate turnover was friggin' awesome. Light and flaky with a warm gooey chocolatey filling. I'd eat another one of those, hell, given the chance, I'd skip the biscuit and go straight for the turnover.

845 miles and we saw our first cop car on the median. That's when I started this blog. I had to stop blogging a bit ago so that the second cop we saw could politely tell us that we might want to be a bit more careful with our speed. He was great. To be fair though, Lisa's mind wasn't on the road at that point and I apologize for that. Nuff said on that matter for blog purposes.

We are hoping to make it past Toledo (all the way to Lorain if we can), Ohio, tonight. If we make it that far then we can get some sleep before getting to Dave's instead of having excited giggling girls wake us up after a couple of hours of sleep and being dead all day for the visit with Dave. I can't ever recall going to Pittsburgh, so that will be cool. I need to see what all the fuss is about "Eat-N-Park"

Remember, if you don't have anything nice to say, shut your fuckin yap!