Day 2 - Kansas to Wyoming

Had a GREAT night sleep, and got up ready for another day on the road. When we looked out side.....this is what we saw:

Therefore, we decided to check the weather and see whether we should stay put or continue on our journey. It did not look good!!! There was a HUGE snow storm headed or way coming through Denver. CO which was our next destination (turned out to be the biggest storm they have had all year). So therefore.....change of plans......Scott and his dad talked and figured out that we could go further North and hopefully go around the storm. Good idea...so on the road we go!!! So about 9:30 am we left and headed due North to Nebraska!!! I had never driven in snow before...so I was a little nervous driving this morning....it was snowing, and the wind was blowing, so it was blowing the snow across the road as well....pretty nerve racking!!

It was a very stressful hour and a half, but when we got close to the border it was pretty good weather again. It was crazy!

Welcome to Nebraska!!!

As you can see...it was VERY windy and COLD!!!! It was amazing to see what was different in each of the states...so, what I noticed that was different about Nebraska is that it was a lot more green!!! You could see for miles and miles and there was more green vegetation everywhere!!! It was beautiful!!! There was also LOTS of cows in Nebraska!!!

We stopped for lunch in North Platte, Nebraska, and we ate at Taco Johns.....which is another place that Scott use to eat at back in his hometown....he did a lot of walking down memory lane this trip!!!Then across the highway was the Fort Cody Museum, and so we decided to stop and walk around and learn a little more about Buffalo Bill himself!!!

After we left the museum then we got back on the road....then suddenly we saw ever man's dream(well at least it was Scott's):

CABELA'S WORLD HEADQUARTERS!!!!


Ladies and Gentlemen we missed the exit, and so we had to go several miles down to the next exit and turn around...we had never been to a Cabela's before. It was really awesome!!!


After we spent a WHILE at Cabela's we decided it was time to get on the road for a WHILE, because we were running out of day light! It seemed like we were in Nebraska FOREVER!!! Since the day before we had already been through 3 states, and today we were in the same one ALL day....I was ready for another state!!! About 3/4 of the way through Nebraska we entered Mountain Time and so we gained an hour...Woohoo!!! We needed it after all the fooling around we had done earlier that day! Then about 5pm we entered Wyoming!!!

Wyoming was absolutely BREATHE TAKING!!!!
It was so gorgeous. This is the point when we started seeing all the breathe taking mountains and snow! Wow!! God created some beautiful, breathe taking country. Praise Jesus!!! Wyoming had a LOT of green land and vegetation, lots of snow, lots of mountains, and also some flat lands in between. It was amazing how you would look around and it would be flat as a pancake, and then all of a sudden there was this HUGE breathe taking mountain covered in snow. This is when I really started taking pictures....there was just so many beautiful things. Although I will not be able to share them all with you...I picked my favorites!

We stopped in Cheyenne, WY for dinner and ate at Perkins. It was really good. After we finished dinner, there was still daylight, and so we decided to keep on driving because there was another snow storm on the horizon headed our away.....so again we wanted to get as far as we good in case we got stuck somewhere. Storm Chasing #2, and for those of you that know me well I do not handle storms well at ALL!!! I am being a trooper!!!

I loved seeing all of the Christmas trees all over the place...it was beautiful!!!

This was when we stopped for gas, because there was not another town for about 100 miles and we wanted to make sure we had full tanks. The snow was very thick!!! Little did we know that the storm was upon us, and the cashiers that worked at the gas station had already gone home to bunker in for the snow storm....oh but not us....we kept on going!!!

Then the wind started to blow and the snow started to fall....but it was on and off, so we can handle that...no ice on the roads....we are golden!!!

This was the beautiful sunset that we saw as we were driving into the mountains! Breath taking!!! Well see those mountains back there...well little did we know that was our destination, and it was NOT pretty. The sun went down by the time we got to the mountains, and then here came the snow, wind and ice. We were winding left and right, and up and down through the mountains. As we got closer and closer there we signs flashing changing the speed limits lower and lower... the signs got as low as 45 miles and hour, but we did not drive over 25 and sometimes as slow as 10 or 15. Scott suddenly got nervous, he realized that the only reason they would slow everyone down was because there was ice on the road, and a snow blizzard raring through the mountains! Well, he was right!!! It was the worst night of our trip!!! We drove for 2 hours in the ice, snow, and wind. The semi trucks were all lined up in a row and we were all trucking all like a train. There was no way to turn around, and so we were in it for the long haul!! Sometimes the visibility was so bad that I could not see the lines on the road, and so as long as I stayed behind Scott I figured I was ok. It was so Scary!!!! I saw the good old Uhaul trailer slipping and sliding all of the road in front of me.....freaking out that Scott was losing control, and where was I going to go, how would I prevent from hitting him, is he going to slip off the side of the mountain, and oh my gosh I am fixing to hit the same patch of ice. Let me just say I have not prayed so much in my life, and my hands were so tightly gripped on the steering wheel that when we got to the other side of the mountain.....I had to pry them off one finger at a time. We saw many cars that had slid off the road and were stuck in ditches. Once we got to the other side I had a big crying sessions to relieve all the anxiety, stress, tensions, and emotions that I had held in through our journey through the mountains. After that I felt MUCH better but was ready to get to sleep!!! It was a CRAZY night, but the Lord led us through it,and we reach our destination safely at 11pm in Rawlins, WY and was more than ready to hit the sack and call it a day!!! Thank you Jesus, and thank you for all that prayed and supported us through this trip!!! Good Night!!!