So long time since I have talked to you.............

Days filled with training and not too much else since New Year's Eve=

Finally made the decision to leave on Tuesday, January12 (after thinking I needed to pack up the house for a Wednesday departure.........then a Monday departure,,,,,,,,, then a Tuesday departure!!!!  We ended up training the dogs 17 miles on Monday because we had gotten an inch and a half of new snow on Sunday

We left home (Deer Park home) at 1:06pm and drove until we got to Dodgeville WI and parked in a  Walmart parking log and fed and then shopped for some stuff we needed - not really a bad place to spend the nite - not too many people late in the evening or in the early morning for us to bother with the dogs - 

Today we are thus far at Waco, Nebraska (a ways past Lincoln) and stopped at a relatively "rough" truck stop that had diesel for only $2.24 - and fed dogs so we will need to drop again in 2 hours and then find a place to sleep for the night - we are still 450 miles from Laramie, Wyoming and haven't heard from Bruce Magnusson and Laura whether the training is good there or not - we may have to keep going all the way to the west side of Wyoming where the stage race takes place to find some training - will have to see tomorrow!!!

This is a picture going across Iowa - they have terraced the land I guess to get maximum acreage from it to grow corn - it made me think of rice paddies!!!

Lots and lots and lots of windmills in Iowa!!!!  Never saw so many!!!!!!

More tomorrow!!!!!!