Eighty Days – Day 66

150 years have passed since the publication of Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days, and we’ve been making the trip in blogpost form. Today, we’ve wound up in Medicine Bow, Wyoming. Phileas Fogg and his group have come 19,017 miles since leaving London on October 2, about 77.5% of the distance, but 82.5% of his time has elapsed, putting him in danger of losing his wager.

They left Ogden, Utah on the 5th and stopped at Fort Bridger in Wyoming Territory at 10:00am on the 6th. Early ...