The new year is here and that means taking one of our girls back to college.
College is just under 3 hours away, but it always seems to take us 5 hours to get there with stops and lunch.
It was foggy the entire way. The trees were beautiful, though!
Today we found a great little restaurant downtown in Cheyenne. The burgers were great! I love local places and always try new ones each time.
We had our puppy with us, so we couldn’t eat in the diner, so we grabbed it to eat in the car. That was probably a good choice since registration ended at 3 and we arrived at 2:30, so any other lingering time wouldn’t have been a good thing.
We moved her back into her dorm, helped her unpack and put stuff away, replenished her snack buckets, walked the dog and said our goodbyes.
The bad weather is supposed to move in this evening, so we wanted to be back on major highways by dark. The roads near the school are usually very foggy on high-moisture days, and today is a high moisture fog day.
When we got into Cheyenne, the visibility dropped to about two car lengths.
Just passed a car spun out into the ditch off the shoulder.
I don’t want to drive. But my husband follows closer than I do. I’m sure I drive him crazy, but I have crazy PTSD after a trip to Sheridan Wy one year to visit my brother. We hit horrible weather, people spinning out everywhere (including right in front of me), I slid back and forth on the road. We ended up stopping for the night about half way to Sheridan, just before they closed the highway. Since then, storms like this make me full of anxiety.
It figures we are traveling in the worst of it. We have about 15 mi left of this nonsense.
It will be clear at Fort Collins, but a nightmare until then.
After a Buccees stop to feed the dog, walk her, gas up, and a bathroom break, we are back on the road. The weather isn’t nearly as bad in CO, though it is snowing a little, and foggy.
We should be home by 7:30 pm. Somehow the days we drop off, or pick up, our girl at school, we always seems to create a 10-12 hour trip.
Happy 2025!