We were planning on leaving for Wyoming at 5:00 am this morning, but we checked the Wyoming road conditions and found that 1-80 was closed in a number of places along with the road from Rawlins to Casper. We waited to see if they would open and decided what to do, around 7:00 the roads opened and we decided to just go for it and take it easy. What a nightmare. 600 miles of solid ice, what is normally a 8.5 - 9 hour drive turned into 12 hours of white knuckle driving. A double long Fed-Ex truck jack knifed between Rock Springs and Rawlins closing the freeway so we sat in a parking lot for 1 hour waiting for that mess to clean up. No Christmas presents for those people. Anyway, we finally made it and I went directly to bed at 7:30 pm.
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