We made it to Colorado!

These are some pictures I took out the window yesterday. The one above was taken at a pretty rest stop in Utah.

Snow covered peaks with one of several trains we saw during the drive.

A pretty little town along the way

Here is Dennis and our grandsons, Carsten and Grant helping him wash the car.

The drive yesterday went well overall and we arrived in Lyons at 3:45pm. The last part of the drive was challenging and we were surprised to see worse drivers here than in California! Or maybe all the bad So. Cal. drivers moved here. At any rate, we saw 2 very "close calls" and then we were in stop and go traffic for over a half hour because of a big 5 car crash. All of this was on a 30 mile stretch on South I-25 between Fort Collins and our turn off to Lyons. Dennis said he was ready to turn around and go back home. (Oh yeah, we have no home to go back to) Ha-ha!

Another interesting thing we saw yesterday was at a rest stop in Wyoming where we were eating lunch. A unmarked police car pulled up and 2 officers proceeded to escort 2 prisoners to the bathroom. The prisoners were very young (WAY too young) and were in handcuffs and ankle shackles and wearing white prison garb. We have never seen that before!

Driving through Wyoming was pretty desolate and flat but we did see a lot of prong horn sheep in the feeding in the fields.

We are happy to be here and Rena and Nathan are throwing us a "welcome" party tonight with a bunch of their friends. So nice of them! Dennis and I went to the local Wally World(Walmart) and then drove through some neighborhoods in Longmont. We saw some nice homes that we hope to look at eventually. In the mean time, on Monday we are taking Carsten and Grant and heading south to Lake City, CO to visit Nathan's mom and pick up the trailer her neighbor is giving the kids. If all goes well, we plan to take the trailer and hit the road for another 2 weeks. We are having a hard time giving up on the "summer of love" quite yet.