Day 6: A day of driving

Dagens rute: (kart)

The distance from Reno to Pocatello, via Salt Lake City, is 1090 kilometers (682miles), if you add the 60 kilometers of detours we drove 115 european miles (or 712miles) in less than 12 hours.... at least we got from A to B..

We expected the day to become a transport stage, but didn't really know if we could get enough kilometers done. Fortunately there isn't that many fun things to see between Reno and Pocatello and we drove.... and drove... and drove... To keep the morning stage up to Yellowstone at a minimum we had to do a marathon stage.

Surprisingly enough it wasn't that bad. Sverre drove the whole time and because of nice roads and the lack of highway police we managed to keep an average speed of close to 140km/h (85m/h). The only really cool thing we saw along the road was the Salty Flatts. This salt desert was pretty cool and completly flat. We did a quick check of the performance of our great car - the explorer.

0-60mph/0-100km/h       13,5 seconds
0-100mph/0-160km/h     36 seconds

Not impressive, but the car was fully loaded with three Norwegians and lots of luggage.

We have also discovered the genius thing of buying Subway for breakfast. By buying a footlong for breakfast - we can keep half for lunch and save time and money on the road :)

The journey of the day ended in Pocatello, Idaho. A small town just across the border of Idaho. Crashed down in a small hotelroom with some Moose Drewl and Alaskan (beers)...