Location: 43.5787 N, 116.2144 WWe started day two with a great view of the Rocky Mountains. It is quite a different feeling to look at the horizon see terrain. We headed north from Ft. Collins, CO to Cheyenne, WY, and saw the U.S. Cycling Championship (or people in funny helmets championship) along the way. We ended up driving past Cheyenne without really noticing it. We thought that the I-25/I-80 interchange may have been far away from the city, and that we were more focused on heading the right way instead of site seeing. However, later we found out that Cheyenne is a small city, and we were only 2 miles from the city center.
We encountered rain in the central 1/3 of WY. With the rain we had in OK early this week, and the rain we've had on the trip, we are ready to live in the rainy Pacific Northwest. It took us about 6 hours to cross WY, seeing some interesting terrain, not many people/vehicles, and some grazing area for cattle.
Utah was beautiful. We followed the floor of some valleys until we got north of Salt Lake City. After that, we entered some more semi-arid basin stuff (wish I would have paid more attention in geology class) until we got to the Snake River valley in Idaho. The Snake River (not quite as cool as the Cimarron River) is a 1,000 mile river that carved out a distinct valley and provides irrigation for farms in the valley. On a topographic map it makes a smiley face in ID! We got up to Boise in under four hours from the ID/UT border and 12.5 hours since leaving CO.So far we have traveled 1400 miles through 6 states. To drive home the fact that we were truly away from civilization, if you added the population of all 6 states (OK, KS, CO, WY, UT, and ID) we have traveled through, thus far, you would have about the same amount of people as the population of Ohio. In other words, there is a lot of space and you feel very isolated. Tomorrow, we ride the Oregon Trail. (note this is not realtime, due to internet issues)
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