If you ever have a chance to drive I-80 from Salt Lake City to California please consider flying or taking another route. It will bore the pants off you. But it is an easy drive, and when you’re hauling thousands of pounds of RV around, you often find yourself choosing “boring” for fear of dying or driving into a ditch while tackling the more “exciting” routes.
This day was our best driving day, though. We rolled out at 5:06 a.m., a true feat for our family. We made great time and even saw one neat site. No one complained, we didn’t get a flat tire, and the lady at Pizza Hut didn’t charge us for an extra kid at the buffet. (And no one got sick from the copious amounts of red Jello they wolfed down!)
It’s all about the little things now. Anyway, we made a 6 a.m. stop at an amazing salt flat. And after that? Nothing for nine hours.
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Kids: “Where are we? The moon? What is this stuff? Can we walk on it? Will we fall in?” |
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It’s salt, kids! |
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“Let’s take this opportunity to run on the salt!” |
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Clara: “It’s six in the morning and I’m standing on salt in the middle of nowhere. These people are not fit to be parents.” |
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It was surreal and moon-like. |
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A close-up of the salt. |
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Sophia just had to taste it. |
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“Yes, it’s salt,” she announced. |
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We won’t have to fill our salt shakers for weeks!
In the meantime, this is what central Nevada looks like. |
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Clara looks so big! I’m curious as to what the kids do during your long boring parts. Mine can’t make it to Portland without someone hurting someone else.
Yeah, Clara can practically swim now… well, she can get around pretty well in her floatie bathing suit anyway. About your question, I’ve been pondering that as we prepare for a long drive to Denver tomorrow morning. A few things: The kids are getting used to long drives. They are getting less sensitive to sitting in a car. This helps a lot. Clara used to fuss more but now she resigns herself pretty fast to being in a car for a long drive and will go to sleep on her own. The older ones do art, read, talk, snack, etc. Sometimes we listen to music (Latin) and mostly we don’t. The other thing that helps is that we are usually driving somewhere new, so we are often oohing and ahhing over the scenery or noting the difference in geography, and so on. Lastly, we stop more often than we ever did when we did roadtrips before. We have the time now, and boy does it do much to refresh us for the next leg of the journey. We fill up at whenever the tank goes to half empty and we stop whenever someone needs to use the bathroom, so that translates to roughly every 1 1/2 to 2 hours. I used to do a ton of things to get ready for a long drive; now we make sure our water bottles are filled, we have a few snacks and that’s about it. Whenever we stop and it’s a mealtime, we have the option of preparing something in our kitchen. Miss you, Rebecca!
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