DJ -Welcome to the update for Thursday coming to you from the state line of Nevada and Utah. We're stopping here for our first warm meal in two days at a hotel and casino right on the state border of Utah and Nevada, Wendover - the name of the town, right out in the middle of the desert here. Our travel today began in Cheyenne, Wyoming and brought us through Salt Lake City and now we're on our way to Reno. Carl suggested we pull over here in this oasis and take advantage of our first warm meal in a couple of days. Today's travel took us across the continental divide at 7,000 feet and we were reminded that automobiles and the old carburetors do not perform the best at higher altitude. In fact, Carl remarked that it use to be the case in the old days for the car to be taken in for a tune-up and adjustment before it could be taken on a cross country trip through higher elevations. So the car today gave some indications that at times it was experiencing some fuel starvation and sort of had some bucking or intermittent engine activity as a result of higher altitude conditions. That's important for us to experience and to know because on our trip from Peking to Paris, we'll be passing through the Himalayan Mountains at much higher elevations than what we're experiencing today. Our travel today took us to Salt Lake City where we visited a business and school friend, Bill Reagan, who was kind enough to accept a Federal Express shipment that had been sent ahead for us. In the course of visiting with Bill, we explained that we had left New York City on Tuesday at 3 o'clock in the afternoon and we were sitting in his office at about that time on Thursday. Well he just thought that was impossible and in fact, it was kind of hard to even convince him that we had in fact done that. 2,100 miles from New York to Salt Lake City. He just hadn't heard of being able to go that distance in that amount of time. We're right on schedule to arrive in San Francisco, under three days for the trip of 2,800 miles. I'll turn it over to Carl now for his update and report.

CS - Well folks, we're getting a real run down on what we're going to experience when we go through Asia and the Indian sub continent. We crossed the wild desert of Wyoming today which will give us a little training for the Gobi desert in China. We had the heat and humidity that we'll probably find in India as we crossed Ohio, Illinois and Iowa. Car is running fine. I want to say hello to friends and family. In San Francisco tomorrow. Back to Eureka on Saturday. Don, here you go.

DJ - Yesterday's report was a little short on facts because we were pretty tired at the time we posted the report which was at 4 AM Mountain time. Yesterday was a 25 hour windshield day as we traveled from Toledo to Cheyenne, Wyoming. Arriving there very early this very day. Consequently, didn't have a whole lot of factual information to share with you. A little comment on the weather. It's consistent all across the United States - it's 100 degrees. That seems to be the temperature from New York to Salt Lake. Inside the car the temperature runs 100 to 105 degrees as a result of pavement conditions and the heat of the engine. It certainly has been warm all across the entire US. That's also giving us a reality check on what we might expect on the rest of the journey. In 1908 it was quite different for the first Around The World Rally. They left on February 12th and arrived in a blizzard in Chicago, 13 days later on February 25th. In fact, their records show it was 13 days, 6 hours and 10 minutes. They then went on to San Francisco and that took a total of 41 days, 8 hours and 15 minutes, arriving on March 24th. We'll be able to complete that same journey in less than three days. Things have changed and do not stay the same. Our health is good and the banter is going on quite well inside the car. That's an important consideration as well, because in motor rallying, it's often said that what goes on inside the car has as much to do with the performance of the car as what goes on the outside and that has to do with the interpersonal relationships of the people and their ability to get along in all sorts of situations and conditions. Our health is good. We're optimistic about completing the United States portion of our Around The World trip. We're glad that you've joined us for this update. We'll be here tomorrow to tell you how it all turned out. All is well and we wish you well. Thanks for taking the time to come along with us. So long.