Some pretty scary weather!!!!

 We made it last nite to a rest stop still in Nebraska - there was a strong wind warning starting in the afternoon and boy, was it ever strong!!!!!  We shook all nite as it was up to 65 mph wind gusts!!!  In the morning we got up and fed breakfast (some of Lydia and Moe's delicious eggs for us.....) at the rest stop and then noticed that our awning on the trailer had taken a beating with the winds - so not wanting to have it rip off further while going down the road we borrowed a ladder from a fellow trucker and cut the darn thing off and then I stuffed it into a rest area garbage can!!!  It would have been awful if it had come tearing apart on the expressway and flown into someone's windshield - so it was a good thing we noticed it!!

We made it to the Wyoming border by 4pm but then ran into blowing snow blizzard conditions intermittently - some going down a 5% grade in the mountains!!!!!  All of a sudden we couldn't see 50 feet in front of us!!!!!  Kept driving until we reached Rawlins, Wyoming and stopped at another Walmart.

We were supposed to train dogs at an earlier stop near Laramie, Wyoming but learned from our friends Laura and Bruce that because of the wind so many trees had blown down on the trail there so it wasn't worth traveling there to train.  So now we are off to Alpine on the western border of Wyoming in the Rockies - so we will see how much I love traveling through the mountains again - it has been 9 years since we travelled to Alaska and had to go through the Canadian Rockies - and that made me nervous - we will see how it is here...............I will leave you with a beautiful picture of a Wyoming sunset💕