At 4:30 this morning, we were up and getting around to head north. The goodbyes are never fun, but goodbyes to family who have carried you through the darkest times in your life are the roughest. We survived the goodbyes, barely.

After a slow start, we finally started making decent time about Sparks/Reno. A day that should have finished around 7:00 tonight, is finally done at 8:45.

We’re in a Red Lion in Idaho Falls. A quick nights sleep and we will be back on the road at 6am.

This part of the journey was beyond what I could dream about just a couple of weeks back. Now Denise, Anthony and I are on THE adventure together.

We’ll hit the border at Coutts, AB tomorrow after approximately 7.25 hours and 479.47 miles.

If Denise wasn’t so intent on sleeping, she would be typing now, too.