Day 2: Pork hearts to die for

Today was quite possibly the worst day to drive through Wyoming/Nebraska (other than perhaps a freak blizzard or tornadoes...). A huge rain storm followed us the entire distance we drove on I-80 today. If you don't believe us, watch the www.weather.com doppler radar for today (27 Aug) for this area, and you can see that we were in the eye of the storm the ENTIRE time! Luckily the hailstones weren't too bad.

The diesels/lorries kicked up enough water most of the time that we had difficulty seeing 10ft/3m in front of us (that's with our wipers going full throttle). We finished the night early (around 9:30pm Central Time) because there was almost zero visibility with the fog.

We're spending the night in the "Settle Inn" in Council Bluffs, Iowa (it has a nice knight/castle theme...cheesy az), which offers internet so we can post these. Oh, the pork hearts. We bought some sausage sticks from Costco the day we left, and they're wreaking havoc on our insides (the main ingredient is pork heart). Kim glanced over the ingredients and has ceased her consumption of the delicacy.

-Total distance today: 648 miles/1,042km
-Total distance so far: 953 miles/1,533km
-Average miles per gallon today: 36.374mpg
-Hotel Room rate: ~US$69.00 (Council Bluffs, Iowa)
-Total sausage sticks eaten: 43 1/2 (mostly by Brad)