July 8, 2008

Tues, July 8, 2008 – Day 42

This is Linda. We began our day today by driving from our motel into the Rockies. As we passed Herbert, Marceline, and Kay’s street, we waved at them. In the Rockies we visited the villages of Ferncliff and Allenspark and also the Wild Basin Area Copeland Lake. There we managed to see a mule-eared deer even though we were quite busy attempting to miss the millions of potholes. A few of them we did miss, but I tried to get them on the return trip. I think I got all of them. We took pictures at the St. Malo Retreat Center and went on through Estes Park and into Thompson Canyon. While there, there was an accident and we had to wait about 45 minutes while fire trucks, a trooper, and an ambulance went past us. We also saw the helicopter come to pick someone up. When we went past the accident scene, we realized it was probably quite serious. A small car had hit a tree and burned. Once again God was with us. If we hadn’t made a wrong turn earlier in Estes Park, we could possibly have been at the scene and possible even have been involved in the accident.

From there, we headed for home from Loveland past Fort Collins and to Cheyenne and onto Interstate 80. Shortly after we got gas east of Cheyenne we ran into quite a bit of heavy rain and had to slow down and finally even pull off at an exit for a while. It was finally done so that we could go on. In Nebraska we saw some deer or possibly antelope off in the distance.

We are in North Platt, Nebraska tonight and are even in the Central Daylight Time Zone again after being out of it since very early in our trip. Tomorrow will be a long day since we plan to drive home and it is a few more miles than we have driven in any other day on this trip.

Today was Ila’s birthday and though we had planned to have ice cream, that never happened, so tomorrow it will be a priority. Have a nice day! We plan to do a brief recap after we get home, so check on our site again.