Day 19: Rawlins, WY to Nebraska

Last evening, Leroy was having a lot of discomfort and difficulty with his eye ... something was in it and he could not get it out. During dinner, he put a makeshift gauze pad patch on it. Despite two nurses examining it in the camper that night, using a flashlight, q-tip, saline solution, and water irrigation, nothing helped. In the morning, we drove as far as Cheyenne, since it was a bigger city with better medical services and took him to the Urgent Care Clinic. Without even having him check in, they decided he would need to be seen by an eye specialist and referred him to an eye clinic just down the road. It was really lucky, the eye doctor said if Leroy could be there in 15 minutes he would see him immediately. The foreign particle was removed successfully and while Daryl and his parents were at the clinic, Ben and Alex and I did a little shopping at the local mall and Barnes and Noble! We were back on the road in probably less than 2 hours!
We did stop at the big Lincoln Statue, I think near Laramie, WY.

 There was some nice scenery before we got in to the boring flat terrain.

We covered a big chunk of driving, landing somewhere east of North Platte, Nebraska. The boys and I listened to the new audio book some, also music and whatever they do on their Kindle/ phone/ laptops!
On our way, we drove through a severe thunderstorm with torrential rain, hail, thunder and lightning. It was so bad that a lot of cars had pulled off on the shoulder of I-80 to wait it out. I slowed down to about 3o mph at some point, because I just could not see through the heavy rain, but Daryl in the truck/camper was somewhere way ahead of me! Anyway, we all made it through safely, but it was that tension in your neck, white knuckle, on the edge of your seat kind of driving that is not very fun!
We tried a couple of huge truck stops in North Platte, but they were packed full of semis! So we had to go on and wound up spending the night at a highway rest stop area! Some heavy rain and thunderstorms continued throughout the night. We are all ready to get home... these last few days are a lot of boring driving.