Salt Flats

What did I learn today. That it is over 480 miles from Reno to the Utah border. The salt flats are really flat and white and awesome the first time across. He saw more of Salt Lake but was not yet in Salt Lake City when I talked to him the first time. Said Nevada was interesting to look at but again probably only a couple of times through. Says Elko was bigger than he imagined.

Next time I talked to him said that he was done driving for the day and that Marcel would quit at Cheyenne so they are in Wyoming. Found out in our talks tonight that some of the higher population centers charge trucks to park in Truck stops. That their frequent fueler points are sort of like frequent flyer miles and you have to have a card for Flying J. He got his in the mail today.

But probably the most unexpected piece of news came when I was watching Ace of Cakes. Did you know they removed Pluto as a planet. How is that possible? That is kind of like saying children are not people because they are not big enough to qualify or too many of them the same size. It seems that they found more masses that they would have to accept as planets as they are the same size or bigger than Pluto so they decided to declassify it instead. Makes no sense to me. But the new saying is you have been plutoed if you are being ignored. Okay tell me you knew this! Go figure.

Oh and Wyoming made him half way through the states of the lower 48 at 24th state.