Tales of I-80

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Tales of I-80: World Turned Upside Down

March 15, 2011

The truck’s rear wheels slipped, floated right off the pavement, took on a life of their own. In an instant, we were headed …

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Tales of I-80: The day I-80 Ruined Christmas

March 1, 2011

By Robyn N. Paulekas, WyoFile reader

In the days before Christmas, my husband and I packed up our car and began the drive from our house …

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Tales of I-80: Call for Entries

March 1, 2011

Everyone who has lived in Wyoming has his or her own tale of weather horror or road warrior mayhem on the 401-mile stretch of Interstate …

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Tales of I-80: Finding a Lighthouse

March 1, 2011

Once you are underway on a stretch like that, there’s no turning back, and your elbows and hands lock so Super-glue solid that you probably …

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Tales of I-80: Hydroplaning Semis

March 1, 2011

By far my most terrifying I-80 moment came not in winter but in late August a few years ago in the desert badlands east of …

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Tales of I-80: Heading Home

March 1, 2011

About half an hour outside Laramie it starts to snow, hard. Soon we’re in a white-out with a semi-truck about two inches from our rear …

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Tales of I-80: Spring Break

March 1, 2011

The road wasn’t packed with snow. Visibility was the issue. When a semi-truck passes, it twists a nasty tornado of snow around you, erasing every …

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Tales of I-80: A Sudden Storm

March 1, 2011

Then I noticed the traffic heading east towards Cheyenne was a lot heavier than the traffic going west. I shrugged it off. But I …