There! Now the photos are in the correct order. This is Prudence at the McDonald's in Mesquite, Nevada, where we dined on the traditional Egg McMuffin meal that broke the fast I made prior to my lab work that started the day.
Our first fuel stop was in Beaver, Utah. Beaver is a neat little town to which we returned to on our way home.
This is representative of the price for gasoline that we paid. South Dakota and Nebraska were tricky in that a higher octane ethanol blend was actually less expensive than the lowest grade on which Prudence thrives (she actually got better mileage with 85 regular unleaded than 91 "super" unleaded.
Having negotiated heavy rush hour traffic through Salt Lake City, our attempt to find a place to eat in Ogden landed us in this truck stop in Willard, Utah. The meal was good, the restrooms were clean, and Prudence basked in the beauty of her backdrop.
It's been a long but beautiful day on the road. I had my blood drawn at the Nevada Cancer Institute at 8 a.m. and we were on the road by 8:30. We drove 678.7 miles, spent $73.93 for 17.929 gallons of gasoline (we'd driven 144 miles on the 07/20/08 fill-up at Costco) and averaged 44.6 miles per gallon. The pictures of Prudence show her at the Mesquite, Nevada, McDonald's where we ate breakfast. Then we gave Prudence her first meal of the day at Ernie's Truck Plaza in Beaver, Utah. Mary and I ate our second meal of the day at the Country Market Buffet in Willard, Utah, but they made Prudence stay in the parking lot where the last two pictures are taken. I haven't mustered up the nerve yet to take a picture of Prudence while we're moving, but maybe tomorrow. We're staying at the Rexburg AmericInn which earned five stars the moment we saw the whirlpool in our room! Tomorrow it's on to Billings, Montana, via Yellowstone and the Bear Tooth Highway. It looks to be another beautiful day, and I'll see if I can pose Prudence in more scenic locations than parking lots.
PS I just noticed that the order of the pictures is from the bottom up.
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