Going West 2013: The return (Continued)

We left Rawlins, WY about nine this morning. We got to Cheyenne about 11 (actually I did not log the time). After a short load up time, the bike and rider were on their way back to South Carolina and the two remaining bikes, headed back on basically the same route.

Tonight we stopped in Ogallala, NE where the billboards proudly proclaimed the original Boot Hill.

Its a small town and we are not going to explore it.

The trip through eastern Wyoming and western Nebraska was uneventful, with exception of some periods of heavy cross winds in Wyoming. We traveled I-80 all of the way, stopping in Cheyenne to meet the truck to take one bike home and in a the very small town of Nix, Nebraska to have a late lunch. Nix was a very small town with a small café that severed good food.

Temperatures in western Nebraska reached 98 for periods. Tomorrow will be warmer but as we travel east, the temperatures moderate some so we are expecting the high 80s to tomorrow.

One interesting note. The second night we stayed in the middle of a cornfield. I mean literally, the motel was surrounded on three sides by corn fields. That was in Monmouth, IL. Tonight, the motel is also in a cornfield but not surrounded on three sides. So we are back into the corn fields. Illinois and Iowa were full of corn fields, western Nebraska not so much, so far. But it is the Cornhusker state, so we will see. We will be traveling through the entire southern part of the state.

Tomorrow is about 420 miles. Today was on 360 or so.

Eastern Wyoming