Basketball at Midnight

I have returned to Saint Louis in a marathon drive from Las Vegas here. I slept for about 40 minutes in Utah a little after sunset (a beautiful sunset), and then drove straight through until sunrise in Kansas, where I slept for a couple hours before finishing the drive. I am convinced that the drive between the NV-AZ border on I-15 to I-70 into Denver is perhaps the prettiest stretch of interstate in the country. YOu pass through desert canyons that give way to snow-peaked mountains in the distance, then forested mountain and canyonlands, to the hardcore snowy rocky mountains of Colorado. I drove through a snowstorm in the mountains in the pitch of the night. At points I could only see about eight feet in front of the car, and the snow was completely covering the road so I couldn’t see the lines. I ducked in behind a truck and followed them, although I think a lot of that was in the middle of the highway. No one tried to pass me, so it wasn’t much of a problem. It was freezing cold and overcast through Kansas, but I outran the rain (by the time I got to Denver the snow gave way to rain) about 100 miles in. When I crossed the MO border, I checked the air temp as the skies were beginning to clear, and it was warm! St Louis right now is almost hot- much warmer than Las Vegas. I arrived in a fine clear skies a little before sunset.