Day 7 ~ Coming home

Leaving Ouray was my worst nightmare!  It was mountain grades and switch backs!  I got so freaked out that I almost sent Dad into a panic attack!  It was STRAIGHT down and NO guard rails!

 I decided it would be best if I just kept my head down and 

did some combat breathing, ha!???  

Then Dad says, "Look at that guy on a bike!"

I looked up quick and  snapped a picture!  There was no 

guard rail and like I said ~ straight down if that guy falls off

the road!  We saw a lot more bikers after him as well!

Still snow on the ground!

 Cool tunnel

 I like this road

 Oh no!  Here it comes again!

 And again!  Luckily, from here on out, we were on the 

shoulder side of the mountain, which was still super scary!

We decided we don't ever need to go back to Colorado.  It was full of motorcyclists and people pulling their campers.  A total tourist place.  All the RV parks were packed.  So much traffic.  We couldn't wait to get out of Colorado.

 And then we were in New Mexico.  

 Dad knew he hit a bird, just didn't know we took it with us!

 Bird!?

 On the 77 on our way to Heber.  Storm is coming in.  

Looks like a Haboob.

 In Forrest Lakes, lookin gloomy.  But we got NO rain!  

We had dinner in Payson and dessert!  

You can't go to Payson and not stop at DQ!

 Meanwhile, in Utah, Cory and Kendal went shooting!

 In town now on the beeline highway.  Yup, it's that hot!  

And a haboob IS coming!

The storm hit around 10:30.  

Wicked thunder and a good down pour of rain!

Good to be home.  Now, let's move!

Day 6

We were more than eager to leave nasty Sterling behind us and the nasty Ramada we had to stay in.  It didn't get pretty until we got into Ouray County!

Downtown Ouray

Our hotel!

We checked into our hotel (thank God we had the foresight to make reservations!).

Then we walked Main Street and ate at the Outlaw.  They had a guy playing the piano.

After dinner we walked up and down Main Street and through neighborhoods.

If you look close, you can see the water fall!

We loved that they just leave the ball out for anyone to play

This was by rivers edge hotel.

Day 5

We headed out to find Sundance Wyoming!  It was cute but a little too small.  The best part of the town was this old church.

We left there and had breakfast in Spearfish, South Dakota.  We really liked it there!

Then we headed out to Deadwood.

Meanwhile in Tooele, Kendal and Cory started working at Alpine doing some "outside" work.

Deadwood was super adorable!  There was just a lot of road work going on.

We didn't go in to Lead.  We were so excited to go to Mount Rushmore!

Keystone was horrible.  It was so packed with tourists.  We couldn't wait to get out of there!

There it is!  So close!

Luken!?

 The sculptures museum where we learned how they performed this incredible feat!

That was definitely a bucket list check !

After that we went through Scottsbluff then into Nebraska.

We drove past this town called Ardmore.  It's right on the border of South Dakota just before crossing into Nebraska .  I'm so thankful we drove by it in the day!  It was super creepy and totally abandoned.  I looked it up (later when I actually had cell service) and found out it's an actual legit ghost town.  It was so creepy!

We pretty much hated Nebraska .  I thought it was raining but it was actually just bugs hitting the windshield!  We stopped for the night in the worst town , Sterling, Colorado.  Our favorite place to stay is the Comfort inn but they were booked so we had to stay in a nasty nasty hotel - the Ramada.  There were huge flies in the room that I think we're coming in from a bathroom light.  The place gave us the heebee geebies!