Folks, let me tell you something: this country is amazing; each state I pass through is more beautiful than the last. California with its rolling green hills, Nevada's snowy mountaintops and low-hanging clouds, the wide salt flats of Utah, and now Wyoming dotted with rock formations in greens and reds and browns. The Rocky Mountains are monstrous and majestic and fill the horizon. There is so much sky out here where you can really get a good look at it and the clouds are so low it feels like they're hovering just over our heads. You can see rainstorms from miles away -- long, wispy fingers of the clouds reaching down.
Seeing Olivia & Reno was wonderful and cute. Salt Lake is ringed by snow-capped mountains and the air is crisp and clear and dry and the light didn't fade until past 9pm. Cheyenne is... a little quiet. It has a feel of a town that knows its heyday was during the time of the Union Pacific railroad and those times are gone.
Tomorrow we chug on through Nebraska and into Iowa. It will be nice to get back down to sea level again as that's the elevation I've always known and loved. I've been updating my twitter from the road, so check that out if you really want to come along for the ride: http://twitter.com/moirak
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