Hakuna Matata from Nevada!!!!!!!

Current Location: Battle Mountain, Nevada; Total Miles Traveled: 2899 Miles

Good Mornin’ Guys!!!!!

Yes, morning. We stayed at a casino hotel that closes in the lobby at 9:00 pm and we do not have a password to get to their internet. Ghetto? Maybe. At least with the fact that they close at 9.

Yesterday was…wow…some kinda day! We left first thing, and since we were only about five miles from the Utah border, we crossed the state line pretty quick. Well, at least we WOULD HAVE crossed it pretty quickly if we hadn’t driven around for thirty minutes trying to find the ramp for the interstate. What is Wyoming thinking, not clearly labeling their streets?!
When we finally got to Utah, we thought it was absolutely gorgeous! Just beautiful!! There are gorgeous sandy mountains and plateaus when you first get there. Then you ride and ride and ride forever with no gas stations! Seriously. We were about 8 miles from running out but that goodness we finally made it to get gas. In Utah though, we hit some terrible weather. Honey, it was AWFUL! It poured and poured rain for a long time. After it finally quick, we drove for less than forty minutes before we hit some kind of crazy storm. We will hereby refer to it as a “salt storm.” Okay, so obviously Salt Lake has a ton of salt. (BTW – do people actually swim in SL? Cause, ewwww, to that.) Well, there are also these things on the side of the road called “salt plains” and apparently, when the wind blows, so does the salt. Now, I know that I have shared the fact that pouring rain feels like little bullets hitting your body. Well, I thought nothing could hurt worse but darlin’ was I ever wrong!? “Salt storms” (that’s what I am naming it) hurt like little bullets with needles on top! It hurt so bad, I was almost in tears. We had to pull over!!! And honey let me tell ya’, I was tasting that nasty salt on my lips for the next six hours or so. And, how lovely it tasted – NOT!! Oh, and then as the salt storm began to fade a smidgen, and then what happens? It begins to POUR down raining!!! And boy, if you thought that one type of weather hurt – try both together! Yeah, it hurt! We pulled over and stood on the Bonneville Salt Flats! This is gonna sound so wack, but it looked like snow or another planet! It was beyond weird. But, pretty cool!

Okay, and can we just talk about the fact that my lips were salty again. Seriously? Can we invent some sort of chapstick that makes salt not stick because omg it's like being in the ocean for 12 hours.

We were aiming for Reno and then the wind was so rough it almost blew us back to North Carolina so we had to stop in this itty bitty place called Battle Mountain, and here we are! It worked out well though because we got to do a little gamblin’ baby. Yes sir. We spent a whole… $4 in the casino! Ricky won $6 or so, and I won about $1! Heck yeah!!

Up next, California, here we come!
Amy and Ricky

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