It was an interesting night last night. The smoke alarm went off about an hour after we went to bed. We both leapt out of bed but couldn't figure out how to silence the alarm. Tom finally yanked it off it's mount and shoved it underneath the covers. That muffled it enough that we could deal with it later. It finally turned off and we went back to sleep after the adrenaline stopped pumping. Not sure what set it off but we blew some air through it and it seemed to be OK and did not go off the rest of the night. Then when leaving this morning we somehow got out of sync with our regular routine and didn't do all the things we normally do and managed to leave our temperature gauge behind somewhere at our site, plus we didn't get all the tanks empty.
It was turning into a real comedy of errors at that point. We had an uneventful drive up towards Scotts Bluff and then we took the scenic detour. Nothing happened on the detour but we did take the long way around. We saw Courthouse rock, Jail rock, Chimney Rock, and finally Scotts Bluff. By the time we finally got there we felt just like the original pioneers traveling the Oregon Trail leaving bits of our things behind and making do with the supplies on hand.
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