Yesterday I drove 900 miles through 4 states to get back home to Colorado. It took 15 hours. I could probably have cut an hour off of that by not coming through Wyoming, but I didn't want to worry about hitting rush hour in Denver.

The cheapest gas in the contiguous 48 is found in Wyoming. Take a look at this map: USA National Gas Prices. I should have bought gas in Laramie before turning south into Colorado, but convinced myself I was exhausted at that point and just wanted to get home. I should have, because I found that it's 12 cents higher per gallon in Colorado than southern Wyoming. Rats.

Many of the cars on the Interstate were Canadians heading north, pulling their fifth-wheel campers or driving large RVs pulling a second car. Most of them were the fifth-wheels, though.

I've always been impressed by how well Utah maintains their highways. You don't need a sign by the side of the road to tell you 'Welcome to Utah' just feel the smoother ride through your tires.

Interstate 80 through Wyoming was construction-free for the first time in years. They've replaced some of the worn-out interstate with new roadway, and for now, it's smooth driving.

It's snowing here in Northern Colorado right now, the first in more than a month (and March is supposed to be our wettest month). Then, it's supposed to clear up. Darn! I wish it'd snow every day for a couple of weeks to make up for lost moisture.

If you do genealogy, you might come across relatives who experienced various natural and man-made disasters. One of my great-aunts lived in Casper, Wyoming in the 1920s and sent pictures of an oil refinery fire to the family here in Colorado. I googled it, and found this great website:

Gen Disasters: Events That Touched Our Ancestors' Lives

There is information for every state, and it's very interesting.

I posted on that forum that I would like to share these pictures with anyone who is interested, and today heard from an orthodonist in Louisville, Kentucky. His father was there at the time of that explosion (caused by a lightning strike) and it knocked him out of bed.