After a day of driving that started at 8:20AM and lasted 9 hours (Mapquest estimated 10 hours), I arrived in Elko, NV this afternoon…and checked into yet another hotel with no internet access. From all of the signs that I’d seen on the highway, I thought Elko would have been a pretty big city, but this joint is SMALL. If you take away the 5-6 casinos in the middle of town, this placed would barely exist. At least, the young lady who checked me into the hotel was nice and I even won $25 playing blackjack at one of the casinos earlier tonight. I’ll likely turn in soon so I can get an early start in the morning and hit the road by 8-9AM.
Today’s drive was the longest I’ve done so far, but I enjoyed it the most because of the scenery that appeared before me. After leaving the hotel this morning, I spent 5 hours getting through the rest of Wyoming, then I went across the top portion of Utah, and drove about 220 miles into Nevada on my way here. I was relegated to my CDs for most of the trip because there were almost no radio stations on my path except for in the Salt Lake City area. Unlike my torturous drive through the Cornhusker state yesterday, I loved driving through Wyoming…that place has nothing in the way of anything, but it is one of the prettiest places I’ve ever seen. When I was on I-80 West going through the state, I was literally driving between and through the mountains (one part of I-80 was at an elevation of 8800+ feet) and, at times, the rocks were so close that I could have parked my car and walked out 25 feet to start rock climbing. It was simply amazing and I got a lot of good pictures there. Utah and the first portion of Nevada were also surprisingly pretty with their own mountainous sceneries and I got plenty of pictures in those two states too. I had another day where I did not see a single police officer on the road, which surprised me…where are the traffic officers in these states? They could be getting some hectic revenue from speeding tickets if they had some people on duty to catch them. Shoot, they could have caught me going 96mph and given me a ticket of legendary proportions…it’s a good thing they didn’t though because y’all know your boy is broker than Oliver Twist nowadays. : - )
It’s time for me to end this entry. I’m sorry this one is so short, but I’ve got to try to put an hour or two of studying in to finish up the Quantitative Skills CD-ROM in the MBA.com MBA Survival Kit. I didn’t realize how good this set of CDs was, but this thing is on point so far. I’ve learned things from this quant skills CD that I hadn’t done in so long that it took me a while to remember that I’d ever seen the material before. Too bad I didn’t start using them earlier. The quant disc is the first of the four CDs in the set and I want to get through this one, the Accounting one, and the Statistics one by the start of math camp on Thursday. Maybe I should start doing these CDs while I’m driving…it’s not like there are cops out there on the road to catch me multitasking…hahahahahahahhahahahahahahahaha!