“If I knew that, I would have taken all of our electronics inside!” We especially worried about our hard drive, which contains everything. “Unbelievable! It froze last night!” Mark exclaimed in the morning when he came back into the room after bringing a load of luggage to the car. It would be our only sightseeing attempt on this trip, a drive through Big Cottonwood Canyon.
We did have to stop a few times for work, but the highlight of the day would be a little detour south of Salt Lake City in Utah. It slowed us down and made the days on the road extra-long, especially when we gained another hour.ĭay 4: Green River, WY – Elko, NV (400 miles/644 km)
The main inconvenience was our lack of cell service, which meant that each time we received LTE on T-Mobile, near cities like Omaha and Cheyenne, we stopped for about an hour, so Mark could make customer phone calls and return emails. Driving was easy and we had gotten in a comfortable groove. We kept cruise control at 75mph (120km/h), just like everywhere else on this road trip. The maximum speed limit became 80mph, but that was a bit too high for our little Prius. Nebraska is a very wide state of mainly nothingness, but in Wyoming, the landscape changed and hills appeared. We started the day with 35☏ (1,5☌) and rain in Kearney (the 2000’ elevation kind of explained the low temperatures) and ended in Green River with pleasant and sunny 60-degree (15☌) weather. We barely slept and blamed the motel as much as the weird non-stop thumping behavior for that. The ceilings were not insulated and creaked with every step they took. While this Motel 6 was more modern and clean than the first one, our upstairs neighbors pretended to be elephants all night long. That being said, it is not the most northern route one can follow, which might have been a bit more exciting, especially in the middle.ĭay 3: Kearney, NE – Green River, WY (580 miles/933 km)
After reaching this thoroughfare from Annapolis via a few other major highways, it shoots straight across the country with a slight curvature to the north. Since this road trip was all about getting to the other side of the US as quickly as possible, Mark and I decided to go with Google’s fastest route, I-80. By the time the Annapolis Sailboat Show came to an end that Monday, we had already reached Chicago! We were very happy with our bonus day on the road, which made it possible to reach Rocklin, CA late afternoon on Friday.ĭay 1: Annapolis, MD – Joliet, IL (730 miles/1175 km) Google Maps predicted that that would take about 40 hours in perfect conditions, but with road work, accidents and some traffic congestion, it took much longer. Fortunately, the owners of our new house sit in Northern California managed to postpone their departure with a day, which gave us five days to cover 2800 miles/4500 km. We were pretty exhausted when we started our trip at 7am, but were assured that sitting on our bum would be the main activity for the week to come. After four days of attending the Annapolis Boat Show as vendors, Mark and I left the East Coast on Columbus Day (Monday, October 10 th) in an attempt to cross the country at a fast pace.
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