Our Business Trip to Denver

This is why we traveled to Denver. We drove up to get this trailer for MA. The truck had 189 miles when Buck got behind the wheel. It was 2 or 3 out of the dealer's lot.

We left home after work May 20 for New Braunfels TX. We stopped in Segiun TX instead about midnight. MA's shop is in New Braunfels. We left there about 10 am on the 21st.

We enjoyed seeing the desert for the first time. We had not been any further west than Corpus Christi before. By the time we left the desert, we had seen our fill of flat, flat landscape. We really missed having trees. We stopped somewhere in west Texas to buy a few things at Wal-Mart. I found a new camera case with a mini tripod. The tripod was the best. I now can appear in pictures!

Our second night was in Santa Fe. We spent a couple of hours being tourists in Santa Fe. We didn't go into the cathedral because of graduation ceremonies being held. Buck bought the girls both a silver ponytail decoration. I got a copper Kachina dancer for the Christmas tree. I loved the street marker for Burro Alley!

We ate in a roadside diner in northern New Mexico. WAY too much good food. Stopped to potty behind a pinon tree.

The afternoon of the 22nd we stopped at Great Sand Dunes National Park. I surprised myself being able to climb up the first few dunes. The creek was very high at the base of the dunes as well as being ice cold.

We left the sand dunes headed for Silverthorne, Co. I love the Rockies! It was a wonderful experience. Even with the rain, it was beautiful. The trooper (who stopped us for not having our headlights on) told us that the snowcaps were from the night before. There wasn't much snow prior to the front that had just moved in .

Waking up in Silverthorne, Co on the 23rd, we raced back up Highway 91 to play in the snow.

I have never seen such snow! IT WAS COLD!!! I was in knee deep snow.

We only had a couple of hours before we had to leave for North Denver to get the trailer. We will go back to Silverthorne.

The idjit we were meeting called MA to say we were hours late. We were to meet him at 'the biggest parking lot around' off of the interstate at noon. OKAY, we stopped at the huge transit lot to the left of the agreed upon exit. No trailer in sight. Several phone calls later, we found him. In a bank parking lot, near a stripmall, about 0.5 miles from the interstate, exit right.

We dragged that trailer to Garden City, Kansas. The stockyards must have been very near to where we were. It smelled like cow poo. Everywhere!

All I can say about GC, KS is that it is on the list of "DO NOT NEED TO RETURN", right under Hot Springs, Arkansas.

We drove straight from Garden City to New Braunfels, TX. Long day, Boring landscapes. We drove for long periods of time without seeing another vehicle. Pulled into the hotel about 11:30 pm. Delivered the truck and trailer after breakfast. Did a walk-through with MA.

Drove all the way back to Jenn and David's after stopping in Alexandria to see John and Vanessa.