July 10th, 2009:

So, it looks like I am mere minutes out of Elko NV. I am wondering if I should call the concierge, or just take my chances at the ticket counter for tbe big shows…

It is a little weird to go into a Flying J for my cup of joe and walk by the rows of slot machines. Toto, we are definitely not in Kansas any more.

I’m pretty sure that Elko is going to be the end of the day’s drive, so hopefully I will bring you a full post when I am ensconced in some luxury establishment. Yea. Right. But just in case we don’t have internet later, it has been a good – long day. Thanks everyone for checking up on me and Ranger Rick – Special shoutouts to: Booty, Nosmo, Beedica, Brenda…I be gettin back wif ya
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For those of you who may be wondering whether I am coming or going, I filled up Ranger Rick just south of Greeley Colorado this morning, and free with every fillup is the answer to that question…

And becuase we have time for just one more question…”So Mr. Warrick, how do you get a head in life?”

“I shot an arrow in the air, where it lands, I know now where” – I dont know where this quote came from, but I remember doing this when I was a kid. In retrospect, standing in the wide-open and releasing a projectile straight up, only to watch it fall back to earth and embed itself in the ground next to you; is a wonder. And something you should never really admit to.

Straight lines. I have decided not to tempt fate or the temperatures in the low desert by driving poor Ranger Rick through Vegas in mid July. Rather, we are going north through Wyoming and on to Cali through the Sierra Nevadas.

As I ponder the Google map, I can sort of imagine what the pioneers must have seen when first they looked out the windshields of their covered wagons. 1000 miles of straight, all the way to the coast. And all on one interstate. Sheesh.