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Trip: Sumner, WA – Boardman, OR – Lake City, FL (3,025 miles)
Route: I-84, I-80
Cargo: French fries
0:00 Travelers’ Oasis Truck Plaza
10:00 Depart TOTP
36:30 Heyburn, ID
1:42:10 Entering Utah
2:39:50 Coffee stop at Love’s (Brigham City, UT)
2:57:00 Depart Love’s
3:13:20 Farr West, UT
3:25:00 Road crew meet up at Flying J (West Haven, UT)
3:42:10 Depart Flying J
3:47:00 Ogden, UT
4:32:20 Eastern terminus of the western I-84
4:48:20 Road crew meet up
5:10:10 Evanston & the Wyoming/Utah border
5:19:00 The 3 Sisters
6:34:30 Fuel stop & 30 min break at Love’s (James Town, WY)
Stream crashes as the 30 min break ends
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Hello there
This stream ran from 8:57 UTC-6 to 16:09 UTC-6 (16:57 UTC+2 to 0:09 UTC+2 of Thursday), it starts in NWS Boise (BOI) county warning area and runs through the Snake River Plain, Northern Basin and Range, Central Basin and Range, Wasatch and Uinta Mountains, and Wyoming Basin. The first chapter is Travelers' Oasis Truck Plaza.
2:51: 9:00 UTC-6, 17:00 UTC+2. Steve mutes the stream at 5:15 due to a bad coughing spell.
9:06 (UTC-7, 17:06 UTC+2). He leaves the Travelers' Oasis Truck Plaza near Eden, Idaho, a Shell, into a construction zone at 10:19 elapsed time, and then unmutes the stream at 13:11 elapsed time.
10:00 elapsed time: Depart TOTP chapter.
21:51: Tire blowout site, apparently.
26:42: 114th Meridian West.
29:55: Leaving Twin Falls ID MSA, entering NWS Pocatello (PIH) county warning area and Burley ID µSA.
34:27: Love's "coffee" truck going the other direction.
36:30: Heyburn, ID chapter.
40:01 to 49:26, and 6:14:31 to 6:31:52: US 30, the only US Route that has always gone coast to coast. In between Steve takes the path roughly used by US 30S, while US 30 takes what was initially US 30N. This happened because US 30 was originally planned to end at Salt Lake City, with its route through Idaho and Oregon being part of US 20 instead; those states objected to the route through Yellowstone and managed to get US 30 instead. But then Utah complained about losing US 30, and thus in the "final" 1926 approval US 30 was split between Declo, Idaho and Granger Junction, Wyoming; while US 20 ended abruptly at Yellowstone (with signage disappearing at the East Entrance), it wasn't extended to the West Coast (or a new instance of it was created, depending on viewpoint) until 1940.
45:28: Another construction zone.
49:26: I-86 junction, its West end. Another West end of I-86 is near Lawrence Park, Pennsylvania.
1:02:51: 10:00 UTC-6, 18:00 UTC+2.
1:28:42: Leaving Burley ID µSA, entering Brigham City UT/ID µSA.
1:28:49: 113th Meridian West. Looks like the county line was supposed to be here.
1:42:04: 42nd Parallel North. The state line was supposed to be here, but again, surveys back in the day weren't perfect.
1:42:07: Entering Utah and NWS Salt Lake City (SLC) county warning area.
1:42:10: Entering Utah chapter.
2:02:51: 11:00 UTC-6, 19:00 UTC+2.
2:15:49: Yet another construction zone.
2:23:34: I-15 merges in.
2:36:02: Cheetos truck going the other direction.
2:39:50: Coffee stop at Love's (Brigham City, UT) chapter.
2:39:51: Coffee stop. Love's near Brigham City.
2:57:00: Depart Love's chapter.
3:02:51: 12:00 UTC-6, 20:00 UTC+2.
3:04:58: Seriously, if you are making a truck to go on the bypass lane send it a green light and don't bother it, dang it 🤬. It's also true there's a relatively long line.
3:12:05: Another Love's "coffee" truck going the other direction.
3:12:54: Leaving Brigham City UT µSA, entering Ogden UT MSA.
3:13:20: Farr West, UT chapter.
3:24:56: Flying J near West Haven. Steve meets Road Crew members BroncoWilly and Utah Railroad Fan.
3:25:00: Road crew meet up at Flying J (West Haven, UT) chapter.
3:42:10: Depart Flying J chapter.
3:46:53: 112th Meridian West.
3:47:00: Ogden, UT chapter.
3:48:22: 112th Meridian West, again.
3:48:47: Leaving I-15.
3:51:25: 112th Meridian West, yet again.
4:02:51: 13:00 UTC-6, 21:00 UTC+2.
4:13:36: Apparently Steve wanted to meet another Road Crew member, Steven S, but he's nowhere to be seen.
4:25:12: Leaving Ogden UT MSA, entering Heber [sic] UT µSA.
4:29:41: 41st Parallel North.
4:32:07: End I-84, merge onto I-80. Another East end of I-84 is near Sturbridge, Massachusetts.
4:32:20: Eastern terminus of the western I-84 chapter.
4:36:01: 41st Parallel North, again.
4:48:20: Road crew meet up chapter.
4:48:41: Steven S and his granddaughter catch up with Steve and have the planned meet.
5:02:45: 14:00 UTC-6, 22:00 UTC+2.
5:05:56: "Evanston, Utah" strikes again.
5:09:35: Green light, and no more chicken coops until past North Platte, 582 miles (936 km) away to be more exact.
5:10:09: Leaving Heber [sic] UT µSA, entering Wyoming and Evanston WY/UT µSA.
5:10:10: Evanston & the Wyoming/Utah border chapter.
5:12:32: 111th Meridian West.
5:14:13: And yet another construction zone.
5:17:53: Start of the Three Sisters.
5:19:00: The 3 Sisters chapter.
6:02:45: 15:00 UTC-6, 23:00 UTC+2.
6:04:12: Broken down truck.
6:05:16: Leaving Evanston WY/UT µSA, entering NWS Riverton (RIW) county warning area and Rock Springs WY µSA.
6:08:37: 110th Meridian West.
6:12:45: Well, no need to explain what is going on here.
6:34:30: Fuel stop & 30 min break at Love's (James Town, WY) chapter. A further annotation reads "Stream crashes as the 30 min break ends".
6:34:40: 30 minute break. Love's near James Town (locator designation "Green River"). However as Steve is about to depart the stream crashes.
7:02:45: 16:00 UTC-6, 0:00 UTC+2. From this point on it was October 26 in my time zone.
We start from the truck stop in Eden, ID to I-84. Then East on I-84 into Utah and thru Ogden (while merging with I-15) to I-80. Then East on I-80 into Wyoming and thru Evanston to the Love's Truck Stop in James Town, WY for a 30 minute break and to get fuel.
Cheetos truck spotted at 2:36:01
Beautiful drive through Utah and Wyoming. A lot of roadworks on US roads, good to see that they do something, the pavement is really bad on many roads. You did also 2 meet-ups with road crew, must have been a great day for you on the road. Thanks for sharing it with us, greetings from a road-tripper from Germany!