Yesterday's snowstorm left plenty of reminders of winter along I-80 this morning, alongside the clear road surfaces we traveled under a sunny, blue sky. We left early at 8:30 am, wearing winter coats in 39-degree weather.
Along the way, we saw a herd of pronghorn. Often called antelope, they are common in Wyoming, which holds their largest population in North America, about 320,000 animals. I was amazed I was able to capture a quick photo of them while we traveled at 75 miles per hour!
Another quick photo early today was of a buffalo. Not a real one, but a metal sculpture of one.
Before leaving Wyoming, we spotted more evidence of natural gas production, electric transfer stations for wind generators, and oil pumping machinery near Cheyenne. Energy production is well underway from Laramie to Cheyenne and beyond.
In Fort Collins, Colorado, we passed a large Anheuser-Busch Budweiser plant, and then in Loveland, Colorado, we spotted a huge Amazon facility while traveling on I-87.
Taking a bypass route to avoid going into Denver, we passed by the Denver International Airport with its white-roof terminal. Also, nearby is the Colorado Air and Space Port, one of the FAA-licensed commercial spaceports in the U.S. It supports horizontal launch concepts for future suborbital travel with two long runways about 8,000 feet in length.
We subsequently connected to I-70, and after lunch at McDonald's, I drove on the straight and level interstate highway, continuing easterly into Kansas. The views all around us converted to flat farmland as far as the eye could see beneath a blue sky and white cumulus clouds, as the temperature rose to 79 degrees by the time we stopped in Hays, Kansas. Today, we passed the halfway point of our journey.
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