{"id":43218,"date":"2026-01-02T00:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T07:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/?p=43218"},"modified":"2026-01-04T08:48:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T15:48:56","slug":"day-26001-happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/?p=43218","title":{"rendered":"Day 26001!  Happy New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This fine (well, wet and rainy, mostly) New Year\u2019s Day we departed from \/\\\/\\onTana! on our almost annual trip to snowbird in Arizona. \u00a0I previously took the trailer down because we were worried about inclement weather\u2026most forecasts showed LOTS of snow, which has not, as of today, arrived. \u00a0They did not show the big windstorms from a week or two ago&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, we are packed to the hilt or thereabouts in our new Subaru Forester!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260101.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-43219\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260101-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260101-600x450.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260101-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260101-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260101.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We quickly (about four and a half hours) crossed into Idaho.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260102.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-43220\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260102-600x280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260102-600x280.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260102-300x140.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260102-768x358.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260102.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There on top of Monida Pass, where the border is, is also this old highway bridge from before the Interstate. \u00a0It is still in frontage road use over the Union Pacific Railroad tracks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260103.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-43221\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260103-600x392.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260103-600x392.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260103-300x196.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260103-768x501.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260103.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It pretty much rained all day, and part of tonight. \u00a0It is suppose to be mostly sunny tomorrow. (Photo by the Dailylife Wife!)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260104.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-43222\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260104-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260104-600x400.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260104-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260104-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260104.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While it is less here, once we got refueled a couple of times our average mileage and the range went up a lot. \u00a0We were geting about 31.5MPG through Salt Lake City.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-43223\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260105-600x247.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260105-600x247.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260105-300x124.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260105-768x316.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260105.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another border!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260106.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-43224\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260106-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260106-600x400.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260106-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260106-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260106.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We rolled into Springville, which is a suburb of Provo, Utah, a couple minutes past 5pm. \u00a0We left our house and hit 10th Avenue South right at 7:30am, which is making pretty good time for 619 miles. \u00a0The drive through SLC wasn\u2019t too bad. \u00a0There were a fair number of cars, but relatively few trucks, and it was a nice drive even though it was raining. \u00a0It stopped a bit after we cleared the southern edge of SLC. \u00a0After checking in we went to dinner!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260107.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-43225\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260107-600x260.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260107-600x260.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260107-300x130.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260107-768x333.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260107-1536x665.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260107-2048x887.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The food was great, but they are understaffed and it took a while to get seated. \u00a0Service was fast after that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260108.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-43226\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260108-450x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260108-450x600.jpg 450w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260108-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260108-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260108.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All in all it wasn\u2019t too bad of a day to start 2026! \u00a0I hope your\u2019s was a well!<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow: On The Road To Kingman, Arizona!<\/p>\n<p>Your Hard (Harder? \u00a0Hardly?) Working Blogger in Action Again!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260109.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-43229\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260109-600x356.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260109-600x356.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260109-300x178.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260109-768x456.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260109.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>~Curtis in \/\\\/\\onTana!, Idaho and Utah\u2026 {!-{&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This fine (well, wet and rainy, mostly) New Year\u2019s Day we departed from \/\\\/\\onTana! on our almost annual trip to snowbird in Arizona. \u00a0I previously took the trailer down because we were worried about inclement weather\u2026most forecasts showed LOTS of snow, which has not, as of today, arrived. \u00a0They did not show the big windstorms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,33,70,5,69,13,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holiday","category-landscapes","category-life-aa-a-snowbird-in-2026","category-on-the-road","category-pad-2026","category-railroads","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43218"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43258,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43218\/revisions\/43258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}