October 23, 2022 Day 15 Cheyenne Wyoming to Wamsutter Wyoming 207 miles
Today is mostly cloudy with a definite possibility of snow or rain. We didn’t book a room last night choosing to wait until this morning to check on the weather and road conditions. We checked the Wyoming road report, listened to the weather channel and looked at a few web cams. Looked like we should be able to go to Rock Springs Wyoming. The no highway option was significantly longer than the freeway so we took an option that combined the two. We started on the freeway. Lots and lots of semi trucks going at high speeds. We can see mountains in the distance. The altitude is above 5,000 feet all the way. Once we left Cheyenne we saw very few houses, gas stations, or anything else. After 40-50 miles we turned off on a secondary road. The weather was still not bad. Only a few rain drops. We passed through the small community of Centennial and began the climb over the mountains. Pine trees with some aspen dot the terrain. We passed the turnoff to a ski resort. The climb is somewhat steep so we are in lower gears. Some of the cars going the other direction have snow on them. Near the top we could begin to see snow on the ground in the shade and up higher on the mountain. The elevation was almost 11,000 feet. We figured going down the other side should be okay. Oh we were so wrong. We were in dense fog most of the way down. We were mostly using the lines on the road to drive by. Finally we were down lower. We stopped in the first town we came to for gas and lunch. Rob had chili and Connie had an interesting tuna sandwich. It started to snow lightly while we were in the cafe. Before long we were back on the freeway. It seemed like even more semi trucks. The snow continued to fall and increased in volume. The temperature was just right so the snow stuck to the windshield. Connie couldn’t see out her side at all. Rob could only see through some of the small area cleared by the windshield wiper. Luckily it wasn’t sticking heavily to the road. Then we had had enough. We stopped and got a room in Wamsutter Wyoming. It has one gas station, one motel and one restaurant. Maybe a few houses but not much. There was enough wind blowing that it was snowing a little inside the car. We got in our room and turned the heat up to thaw out. We must have been quite a sight if you could see in. We had on winter coats, blankets over our laps and other blankets to try to block some of the holes. Hopefully the weather tomorrow is better. If not, we may stay another night in this booming metropolis.
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