December 2nd

Made a serious error yesterday giving Marg a hard time about sleeping late on the first day.  She was up and about at 6AM, I finally got up at 6:30.  There is a real note to self learning experience here. 
  Anyway we had a breakfast at the hotel.  It was pretty good, scrambled eggs, sausage & all the other good stuff.  Then it was back to the room to pack the bags out to the truck again.
  We filled up and were on the road by 7:30 AM.  For some of you this may be no big deal, but for us it is a major accomplishment.  Traffic leaving Pocatello was light and roads were dry, so we made pretty good time.  In fact we got to Salt Lake City by about 9:30 and traffic coming in to the City was pretty heavy.  It thinned out by the city centre and the last half was pretty light, so all in all a good time to get through.  I think it was about an hour to get through to the south end.

  About an hour out of there I got a migraine, so Marg drove to Scippio where we stopped for lunch.  When I said - well you can't accuse me of not feeding you lunch today, her reply was that technically it was her to brought us in for lunch.  I can seen I'm not going to win that one.  LOL  After lunch I drove and it rained off & on all the way to Las Vegas.  We just waved as we went through St George, our usual stop-over. We never see anyone we know on the highway, so it was a real surprise when Pat & Diane Taylor passed us just after lunch. 
  In fact it rained quite heavy in Vegas where we had to manipulate our way from the I-15 freeway to the 515 that goes east.  This is usually a tricky connection, but as luck would have it we made it there during rush hour. I was really dreading it, but we lucked out with getting a break in to both merge areas and blasted right along in the dark and rain.  At the end of the day we made 958 km's today. 

  Went to the East Side Cannery where we got a really nice room.  We have stayed there before, probably some of the nicest rooms in Vegas.  Went to the buffet for supper, our first buffet of the winter and it was good.  Played a few hands of black-jack but got picked clean.  Marg did a little better on the slots, but alas they managed to get it all back.
  We are now 2,881 km's from GP & expect to make AJ tomorrow.  There is some rain forecast for tomorrow, hopefully not heavy.