Blog #395 Third Travel Day- Colorado Here I Come

Thankful for another sunrise. No rain during the night and we were getting ready for the last day of this first leg of our trip.

It was 52 degrees inside the Whale when we woke up.  We turned on the propane furnace for awhile to take off the chill.  We made some coffee and got things ready to head out of Russel, KS and the Triple J RV Park on down the road to our daughter's family home in Aurora, Colorado.

Driving through our own shadow.

West Kansas looks a lot like west Nebraska.  Lots of farm land, but not many trees, or cities or anything for that matter.

Crossing into Colorado on I 70 we saw mowing teams out on the roads and notice the brown look of winter months.

The first glimpse of Pike's Peak.  It's a pretty awesome thing to see after driving through prairie.  We always think of the first settlers in wagons seeing the mountains and thinking, NOW WHAT???

As we got closer the whole of the Rocky Mountain range with the snow caps got larger and larger.

We stopped and topped off the gas as we pulled into Aurora and then drove on to Tana's house.  We parked in front of her house and were greeted by Collin, Cooper, Tana and two dogs.

Collin and Cooper

The two older kids weren't home when we sat down for a nice dinner.  Carter came in for a half hour during his supper break from his job and we are still waiting for Kyra to get home from her job, so we can see her before we go to bed. We had our first time change from Central to Mountain and it's bed time for us... but yet, it's not.

After dinner we went to watch Collin work with his baseball batting coach.  It was pretty strange seeing him being coached in a basement, but his teacher knows his stuff and has helped Collin a lot.  Collin is a freshman and is hoping to make the High School Team. He is very talented.

Harper the Dog was hoping to get some sort of treat from me.  Cooper is in the background.  He had football practice tonight.

We are waiting to see Kyra who should be home in the next few minutes.

Thanks for all the prayers.  Our plan is to be here until early Thursday morning when we start the second leg of this journey to Wellton, Arizona, near Yuma.

Blessings,

Kathy