Salt Lake City to Cheyenne

I've driven this stretch of I-80 more times than anyone who is not a long-haul trucker should admit to.  So I knew what to expect but it's fun seeing it through the eyes of Mihai and the boys.  

Yes, there's a lot of space in this country (but not much else)

However, what this stretch of I-80 lacks in dining options of any kind it makes up for in scenery such as the following:

This is all from out the car window because clearly it was freezing.  Imagine what we might have seen if we had taken an exit and gone exploring (and imagine how pathetic our frozen little bodies would look when they were discovered in the spring thaw by some poor hapless hiker...)

And it's all beautiful, right?  And two hours of it produces this effect:

Other than a few patches of heavy snow blowing across an ice-covered road, it was a rather uneventful (but looong) drive to our destination: Cheyenne.

At the Old West Museum in Cheyenne (really, that's its name, I didn't make it up to be cute)

One of the joys of parenthood is forcing your children into dorky situations, photographing them and then distributing said photos as far and wide as possible.

This photo begins and ends the entertainment section of "Discover Cheyenne, Wyoming", unless as entertainment you count the 30 minutes spent driving around downtown (7 square blocks) in search of the restaurants that you were told could be found there.  We discovered that restaurant can be widely defined: Arby's and Carl's Jr. qualify for this designation in Cheyenne, as does the unlikely named "Dynasty Gourmet Chinese and Taco Bar" which was unfortunately closed due to demolition.