Big Sky Country

As I was driving through Wyoming on I-80 I could see what was meant when the term big sky is used. The sky was all around and I think you could see forever. No trees or buildings on the horizon. Just ground and sky. Sure makes one feel small.

Somehow while driving on I-70 in western Kansas the sky did not seem so big. I just can not figure out why. Seems to be similar terrain but somehow its different.

The drive to Salt Lake on I-80 took two days staying over night in Cheyenne. The road were good, the car gave no trouble and the only thing that was stressful was the strong winds. There seemed to be as many semis on the road as cars.

The return trip was a bit more stressful as I was following one snow storm and ahead of another. The roads had some ice spots and were wet but overall the roads were OK. I-80 and I-70 were both closed ahead of me for the next day's travel. But I-70 was opened on the second day around eight in the morning, so it was all good except that I got a later start than I wanted. We (wife and I) spent the night in Fort Collins.

The Internet is a great help in planning the trip, especially watching the weather reports for the return trip and checking on road conditions. Because of the weather reports I was able to be on the road between the storms. Years ago I always worried about the weather when traveling as I would not have very much information on the weather ahead. I would have not wanted to make this trip without current weather information. Back then traveling at this time of year you risked being stranded for days by snow storms. Everything about traveling on the roads is much better now than it was thirty to fifty years ago.

At the rest stops there were signs about the Eisenhower highway. They told that Ike saw the need for good roads for the military after he accompanied the Army's first transcontinental motor convoy from Washington, DC, to San Francisco when he was a Lt Colonel in 1919. The trip was long and hard with many delays due to bad roads. This put into his mind the need of a system of cross continental highways that eventually led to the concept of the National Defense Highway System. However the signs failed to note that Ike got the idea for a national road system when he traveled on the German Autobahn during WWII. Thus it failed to note that the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways were based on the Autobahn. Also the signs use the term Interstate highways leaving off the fact that the highway system has the term defense in its title. I guess its not politically correct to talk about the military use of the roads and that they are based on a German design.

Off to Utah

Friday morning, the 18th, the wife and I will leave on a drive to Provo Utah to visit her niece for Thanksgiving. We will spend Friday night in Cheyenne after a long drive. In order to have the energy to drive 10 to 12 hours I will stop taking my cholesterol medicine. I am now on Zetia and it makes me very tired. I have stopped taking Antra as I had no energy, no libido, and I just did not care about anything while I was taking it. Now not having libido was not too bad as I no longer can get an erection, but I did get tired of just looking at the faces of the women around me and on TV. It just seem something was missing - - now I remember what. So the Zetia is better, barely. With the Zetia I sleep about ten hours a night with a three hour nap in the afternoon. And I feel tired the rest of the time. The time I'm not sleeping, I am mostly veging (sp?) in front of the TV. I hope I can get use to this medicine as I think it is one on the last ones or family of meds I have not tried.

Maybe I can find some things interesting to post about on my trip.

Latter

The Rev. Pat Ridiculous

Its just so ridiculous for a man to think that he or she can speak for God. Just because Pat is unhappy that Pennsylvanians voted out the school board that backed the weakling of science in favor of faith based creation is no reason to think he can speak for God. Pat has often spoke for God on his 700 Cult program. He spoke against the Venezuelan President, prayed against Supreme Court members, linked 9-11 to not allowing prayer in schools and the list goes on. He claims to be a Christian but he seems to worship a different God than I do. My God and Christ is about love and forgiveness not hate and judging.