We are now almost half way across Wyoming. It’s a beautiful sunny morning, we’re barrelling down the I-80, looking out over the Wyoming plains with the foothills of the Rockies to our left. We covered amazing ground yesterday, driving in four hours stints between breaks for gas, across Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska.

The landscape yesterday was just fields of corn for as far as the eye could see, so todays view is a welcome break from corn! En route through Iowa we passed another VW van, professionally painted in a metallic blue, decorated all over with with Grateful Dead symbols, and driven by an old Gerry Garcia lookalike. We were also passed by a young couple with an Ontario plate - their car stuffed to the hilt with bikes, sleeping bags and coolers. As they passed they mouthed ‘Burning Man?’ through the window and gave us a big thumbs up - here we go…..