Start Location: Tremonton, UT
Ending Location: Pendleton, OR
Miles Today: 486
Trip Miles: 3790
States Visited: 11
National Parks Visited: 0
Low Temp: 52.7° F
High Temp: 87.4° F
Min Elevation: 1298'
Max Elevation: 5587'
Route Map:
NLBM 2022 - Day 12
We're almost home and both of us are ready to get there. Today
was mostly uneventful. When we started out this morning the lady in my
phone said to get on I-84 West and go 483 miles or there abouts - and
we did that. The stretch from Tremonton to Burley, ID is pretty ugly
and, besides that, we have done this stretch numerous times. The
traffic wasn't too bad until we got near Boise and then it was very
heavy. In fact we had about a two mile stretch of stop and go because
there had been an accident earlier. That's probably not too bad for
almost 4000 miles so far.
We had a lot of smoke this
afternoon and saw lots of black patches from burned out brush fires. We
actually saw one of the fires around 4:00 this afternoon and Linda
managed to get a shot of it.
The two common threads
throughout this trip is that there is a lot of road construction. We
saw dozens of "Road Work Ahead" signs in every state. Fortunately there
were no backups, it just meant we would have to slow down for 10 or 15
miles and generally it was like 75 to 65 - no big deal. The second
thread is that everyone is hiring. Every restaurant had signs up and
some were closed or opening limited hours. There were also signs at
every gas station/convenience store and most of the semis had signs
advertising for drivers. There appears to be no lack of work for
someone who wants to work.
We had a nice dinner and a soak in the hot tub tonight and we head for home tomorrow.
