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Forgive me, I'm going to keep this short, I'm exhausted. I was going to try and make it to Iowa today, but Mother Nature had other plans. I woke up this morning to about 3 inches of fresh snow on the ground in Wyoming. The roads were okay, but the beginning of the trip I had to travel pretty slowly due to the high winds, snow, and slippery curves.

I love snow, just not so much when I am going to be driving all day long. This is sorta like a very expensive digital holga shot?


Once I was out of the Elk mountain area of Wyoming the roads cleared up and I cruised for a few hundred miles until about 70 miles from Lincoln, Nebraska. At that point the roads became one big sheet of ice combined with 50mph gusts of crosswinds I decided to call it a short day and stopped in the small town of York, Nebraska. I'll hole up here tonight before completing the rest of the trip in the morning.

About 7 hours to go. Not to shabby.

Best,
Brad Vest

Listening to: Solo Impala, The Fashion

A lot of warning signs as I have made my way east the past few days.


It wasn't to great to drive in, but it was pretty gorgeous.


Energy in motion. I've passed so many of these on the way home, I love it.


That little guy was probably headed to a nearby farm like this one. It was so windy out today, these things were spinning like helicopters.


This was actually a lot less slippery than the final leg in Nebraska at night when I decided to call it a night and relax instead of drive 45mph behind semi trucks.

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It's always fun to drive west into the sunset, but the rest on the eyes coming back east isn't anything to complain about either.


Two days in the books and two more to go. After close to 1,300 miles (would have been a couple hundred less if there were no flooding) I have just under a thousand left. Something like 946 or so. After the minor setback of Wednesday I made up some time today as I made my way through Salt Lake City and out onto I 80. With only a few more mountains left before the boredom of Nebraska sets in I spent a lot of today enjoying the sights and trying to make a few pictures.

641 mi – about 9 hours

The sun was hiding a lot of the day behind a blanket of clouds, but when it came out it made for some spectacular light. Between those brief moments of light I played around with the clouds and the mostly backlit conditions.

Here are some scenic shots along the route. Enjoy the clouds and mountains.

Thanks for looking,

Brad Vest

Listening to: Kids, MGMT

Utah, beautiful.


Devil's Slide.


25 MeH, Devil's slide.


The Great Salt Lake. My brother Jake, and I looked for this lake at 2am or so on our first road trip west. We were heading for San Francisco pulling an all night drive when we saw the exit sign for the lake overlook. We smelled fish and were wandering around a salt flat when some guy drove up on a motorcycle and told us we were about a mile away from water since the lake had receded so much.




A little peek from behind the mountains.


Rest stop.


Not that you can see to well, but there is a giant field of windmills. Awesome.


Seeing how many dead animals I've encountered along the road so far, after the sun goes down I usually find a fast semi and hide behind it as to not take any direct impacts from deer or elk.