Not in Battle Mountain....not much in BM actually....not sure, but I think they might have renamed the one in Wells....along with the second one now that was just recently built....just West of the overpass on US 93....thought sure it was/is Donna's....but everyone knows what I am referring to!
Chicago to Salt Lake City - I80, how is the run ?
Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by newtrucker2011, Jul 17, 2011.
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Don't even know where to begin, so much grasping at thin air. I guess Ill go in order.
Never stated I took I-80 after I reached Sacramento and headed south, Not sure where you read that
The whole 10 or 15 people who do live there will be ok, pretty sure they are aware of the open country they live in.
I didn't say the mountains were on the WY border.
I was actually indeed referring to Iowa 80 truck stop, but you and your infinite wisdom somehow assumed I meant some other random truck stop. Life for you must be like a giant "Who's On First" routine.
Indeed it was tongue and cheek, and more or less light hearted commentary.
I have heard of high mountain desert, and using the term Tundra also adequately described the terrain which makes one wonder what you are getting at. I know a lot of people (much like yourself) are unaware that the word "tundra" is not limited to land with snow on it. It simply means a cold subsoil (year round) and a low number of trees (if any).
SLC, as in downtown, may not be the prettiest (even though I don't think it looks bad), but the surrounding area and land of SLC was the focal point of the statement, which I am sure any other reader could grasp. Technicality Jones seems to be the only one struggling with it.
SLC and the surrounding area has snow TOPPED mountains year round, including when I was just there at the start of July. I stated "streams AND rapids" key word "and" thus separating the two words. However you somehow took it as "rapids within the streams". Once again, another gross over attempt at trying to correct something that does not need correction.
"Those messages are a message to the travelers behind them, a 50 year tradition" .... Okay... how is that any different of me saying "random #### wrote in the salt as a tourist tradition"
When you "cross over" you will dissolve into the ground and have no conscious thought because your brain and body will no longer be functioning, thus being "dead". I know getting older makes one want to believe more and more that there is something else after, maybe so they can sleep easier at night. Doesn't make it true though
You must not have done Donner much, seeing as it was still snow covered at the beginning of July this year when I was there. Slick / partial ice roads at the summit. And I indeed have done the route multiple times, including in mid winter. I guess it makes sense you assumed an OTR trucker only drove in June / July
I am sure you are a fairly friendly old fella in real life, but you remind me of some of the older truckers who sit in a lounge mid conversation and HAVE TO interject and show just how much they know, when the convo was going fine and dandy. Sure experience is a good thing to share, but sometimes you are just digging dirt and trying way too hard to make corrections and opinions known when they aren't really applicable. Like the guys you hear doing 40 minute run on sentences in the trucker lounges that just get brutally mundane. -
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