Friday, August 15, 2014, Power problems and moving on.....

Woke up at 2:30 am to find that the power was off. It appeared to be on in the rest of the park, so what was the problem? Marcel said that he heard the surge protector click back on three times, and apparently after three tries, it stays off (thereby cutting power). That is exactly what it is supposed to do if it detects an electrical problem - high or low voltage - in order to protect the electrical equipment in the rig.
We finally got up at 5:30 to investigate and discovered that the surge protector was showing high voltage.  After testing all the cables & plugs, which tested out OK, we packed up & departed Rawlins under sun/cloud and 19 C.

It was an interesting drive along I-80 where there were miles & miles of wooden fences apparently randomly placed in the fields near the highway. It turns out that they are snow fences!

Snow fences, those rambling, slat-wood barriers erected along many of our nation's highways, saved I-80, and continue to perform their seemingly impossible feat every winter. Icons of the American landscape, these “fences to nowhere” channel wind and snow in remarkable ways to clear the road ahead. Think of them as wind-driven snow plows to manage wind-driven snow.
Over 5.2 million dollars was spent to construct these fences along a 44-mile stretch of the highway.


At 10:25, we reached Laramie and saw Pronghorn Antelope in the fields.   Shortly after that, we had climbed to 8640 ft, the highest point on the I-80. The temperature has risen to 23 C.
At Cheyenne, we picked up a sub for lunch, then stopped at a rest area, where it is now 28 C.

Shortly after getting back on the highway, we crossed into Nebraska. The terrain is very flat at 5,000 ft.





Our stop for tonight was at Cabela's RV Park, which is conveniently located next to the Cabela's store.
We got set up & the power was good! No problem.
Also have cable TV.







For those not familiar with Cabela's, has a distinctive look to its retail operations, which turns its stores into tourist attractions. The stores are more like cavernous showrooms, bringing the outdoors inside They feature museum-quality displays of taxidermied wildlife, large aquariums, indoor mountains, and archery ranges.  Fascinating place.