Got up this morning, and started checking the weather channel and the Wyoming road depts road maps. The road west from casper to rawlins looks good, not like last night when it was snowing.
We had our typical motel breakfast, actually not to bad for the price...free..and packed the motorcycle. It was a hundred miles to casper, the first 80 were cold but doable, but the last 20 were not fun. By the time we arrived the shivering had started so after a lot of coffee we went to an outfitters supply store. I got a red thermal union suit (longjohns), wool socks and some chemical heaters for my gloves. Marsden got some more thermals. We were now wearing four layers including the suit. We went to rawlins, 120 miles, with no problem and then on to green springs. Since the weather was still holding we pushed thru to evanston, wy, the last town in wyoming. By now we had covered 400 miles thru the cold. But we knew there was always a chance that the pass to salt lake city could snow in so decided to go for it. We finally stopped at a koa in provo, ut. 530 miles from our starting point, buffalo, wy. I was beat but very happy to be out of the miserable weather we had been in for the last four days.
Went to a golden corral buffet to celebrate, they were closed but opened the doors for us, very nice.
Looking forward to good riding weather tommorow and reaching las vegas.
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That's Rock Springs and Green River. Both towns are dear to my heart because I hung out in Rock Springs a lot at one crazy point in my life; and I had a college friend who once abandoned a vehicle (which I used to drive - it's a long story) in Green River, by shoving it into the River. Ah the memories of a mis-spent youth.
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