Day one in the books.

Eleven hours on the road. Five-hundred and ninety-six miles. We climbed over fifty-three-hundred feet through temps as low as nine degrees and as warm as thirty-four degrees. We passed a herd of Elk grazing in a hay field in Eastern Oregon, and ten miles later, encountered twenty mule deer preparing to cross the highway.
We stopped for a mid-day breakfast in Vale Oregon at the Starlight Cafe. The eggs and bacon were accompanied by hash browns; all well prepared and the coffee was hot!
We paid three-sixty-nine for regular in Nampa Idaho and crossed the State at eighty mph (the posted limit).
We reached the Hampton Inn in Tremonton Utah, were we had booked through Hopper, only to be charged an addition fifty dollars for our dog. We will not be staying here on the way home. We ate dinner at The Grill Restaurant and bowling alley right up the street from the hotel. We dined on smoked Turkey breast, French Fries and Broccoli. We shared homemade carrot cake and pecan-coconut pie for desert.
Tomorrow, we leave Utah, cross Wyoming and drop down into Denver. We are prepared for lower temperatures, and higher elevations.
DE Haines