After signing off this morning, we finished packing and carried the first load of stuff down to the van. We intended to pack this stuff, get the small stuff, pick up a bit from the continental breakfast (if it was more than just sweet rolls), and drive on to Wendover and have a real breakfast. We should have been on the road around 9:30 or so.
The van's right rear tire was flat.
( That was only the tip of a very expensive iceberg )( The day didn't get any better after that )In the end, we finally rolled into the Rock Springs Holiday Inn at 10:10 PM -- around five or so hours later than I had originally hoped. Then we had a little bit of fun checking in. They had upgraded me on account of my gold status, but the upgraded room had only a shower. Lisa likes bathtubs, so I asked for a different room, which they had -- except it was shower-only as well. On the third time, the desk clerk (who had been played false by the room descriptions in her computer) gave us one of the jacuzzi-tub rooms, but it had taken us roughly forty minutes just to get moved in.
Because we hadn't known that the room would have a fridge/microwave, we hadn't stopped to get stuff on the way in. That meant another expedition, but most of the nearby places were closed. Fortunately, there was a Wal-Mart food center still open at 11 PM, and we got some milk and a couple of microwave meals, one of which I'm about to eat because I'm completely wiped out. And there are a lot of e-mails in my inbox that look like they need resolving before I can sleep. I have a feeling that we're going to fall behind tomorrow as well. Sigh.
Today's travel: about 460 miles. Active trains spotted: 8.
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