This was supposed to have been posted last night, but FFT3 wasn't working and I just saw the email about FFT4:
Today was something else. We left Cheyenne at around 7:00am and just after crossing the Colorado border on I-25 we saw an annunciator sign warning us that West of Denver, I-70 was closed. We pulled-off the freeway and checked our phones and it seems that a landslide wiped out a section of I-70 in the Glenwood Canyon section of the interstate (it also blocked AMTRAK), the route that we were planning to take. So we looked at the map and decided to go back to Cheyenne and take I-80 West to where we could then cut back to I-70 the other side of where the highway was closed. We drove about 150 miles West on I-80 and then took what looked like a good highway South from Wyoming into Colorado. The first 80 miles or so was great and while it was only a two-lane highway, the road conditions were good, traffic was light and the speed limit was 70 mph, but then we got to where that highway had been wipe-out as well, but we had to wait nearly an hour before they finally let us through, which by then it was obvious that a lot of people, including at lot of truckers, was using this route to get around the I-70 closure. Anyway, we finally made it to our hotel in Green River, UT, only about four hours late.
We've decided to skip Arches National Park and Monument Valley tomorrow and instead head directly home in the morning. It'll be a 10+ hour day, but we want to get home.
And update:
We arrived home this afternoon at 4:46pm, after traveling 7,654 miles. We averaged 29.6 MPG for the entire trip, which isn't too bad considering that we traveled a lot of miles in states like Utah and Texas where the speed limit is 80 MPH in many parts of those states. Note that our best 50 mile stretch was 40.0 MPG, but then that's the highest number that can be reported for that, so in reality, we probably did much better.
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