Mon July 7 2008

Monday, July 7, 2008
Hi, it’s Phyllis again.
This morning after a continental breakfast in the motel, we got on the road again. This time we are headed toward Cheyenne. This is very interesting country. One minute things are fairly green, even with out irrigation, and just over the next hill, or around the next corner, it’s barren, brown and full of rocks. It is hard for me to imagine how anyone makes a living here on a ranch or farm. There are a lot of wind farms (turbines) and since there always seems to be wind, they are on the move. We see cattle scattered around the hills and sometimes pretty large herds. Not much wildlife, but a few deer, and lots of ground squirrels, many who did not make it across the highway. We gassed up in Laramie, where the gas was $3.89. That was the cheapest we found it since leaving home. We arrived in Cheyenne around 4:30 and stopped at the Lyle and Lorene Johnson home for a brief visit. Lorene was going to be doing crafts for their Vacation Bible School this evening, so we didn’t stay long, but really enjoyed our time with her. Lyle was on the road so we didn’t see him. Our motel tonight is in Longmont, Colorado. After finding a motel and a brief meal at Burger King, we went to visit Ila’s cousins. What a delightful family. Herbert and Marcelline Tennis and her sister Kay, made us feel just like family. Of course Ila was, but before the evening was over, we felt like we had know them all our lives. We did discover that since they were originally from the Cedar, Beacon, Eddyville area that we not only had several experiences in common, but also knew lots of the same people. It was a fun evening and we probably stayed too long, but if we tired them out you would never know it. If we had visited in the daytime, we could have seen Herb’s garden, and fish pond, and many flowers that he told us about.
Ila has reminded me that we never told you the story of “sleeping at the foot of the bed”.
It was in Langley, B.C. The bed was right against the wall, next to the window where the A.C. was located. Now since the cold air was blowing right on me, I decided that the only way to sleep at all was to change ends of the bed. Ila woke up, saw me down there and decided she would also change. When Linda woke the next morning , she thought we had lost our minds.
Well enough trivia for this time. Tomorrow we are headed East again and should be home by sometime Wednesday. Keep reading, the adventure is not finished yet.