Greetings from the Quality Inn (the Motel 6 was full) in lovely “downtown” North Platte, NE. After a bit under 1100 miles of driving today, I’m now a mere 262 miles from home. While I only made it through one time zone – ET to CT – I did manage to make it into the land of 91 octane gas [1].
The progress today actually had me contemplating a completion of the drive tonight – and if I didn’t have a call I needed to be on tomorrow I might well have done that – but it’s probably just as well that I stopped. While I’m fine with the power-nap-in-a-truck-stop strategy, and have used it many times on late night trips from Logan to Maine, I can’t say that it’s my favorite thing in the world. Sometimes you just need a shower.
Logistically, I’ll be heading back to Denver just as soon as my call is completed – about 11 AM CT, I think – so I should be back in the Denver office sometime early afternoon (I pick up another hour en route). Until then, cell is your best bet.
Lots to talk about when I get back.
[1] For reasons that I don’t fully understand, many stations here in the midwest serve premium fuel that is 91 octane rather than the 93 octane I get on the east coast. Apparently octane consumption is in some fashion related to altitude, which explains Denver’s lack of higher octane fuels, but not Nebraska’s.
