October 28 On the road again ...finally

If there’s one thing I’ve learned in life it’s that every day contains a challenge of some kind. Some days they are small challenges and others are more difficult challenges. The challenge for us today was getting our truck out of Mike and Darlene’s driveway! Although the snow wasn’t so deep, it was a bit icy. Mike backed the truck up to the garage so we could get it loaded. Then the fun started! It was across the driveway and stuck. It would only move inches forward or backwards. This is all because it is only rear wheel drive. Well, Bill and Mike chipped and shoveled away the ice in the back and tried again, to no avail. Then they put gravel down, but again, that did not prove successful. It was time to bring out the big gun! Mike got his Bobcat started up and used a tow rope to pull the rear of the truck around while Bill was inside steering. It took 2 tries but FINALLY the truck was at least facing down the driveway.

Now, I was not interested in driving it out, so Mike drove me in the truck out their driveway and up their road that had not been plowed. It’s only a couple of miles to the county road that was totally cleared. Dar drove Bill out in their 4 wheel drive jeep. Relief! Whew! Bill says we will never go anywhere again that has snow! I took over the driving once we said our quick good byes and thank yous. We really had a good visit and look forward to having them visit us in SUNNY Florida!

Glenwood Canyon

We managed to get on the road at after 11:30. The rest of the drive was totally uneventful, but that’s a good thing. We stopped in Glenwood Springs for a quick lunch at Subway, then arrived back at our RV in Grand Junction at 3:30. It was a beautiful drive through Glenwood Canyon, where the cliffs rise straight up in places and the interstate is almost a double decker. You can’t see the eastbound lanes from the westbound lanes because the east are almost under the west. At one point I spotted 4 deer on the cliff. Bill insists they were sheep but they were too dark to be sheep.

The view from our campground

Once we got unpacked and settled back in Bill dropped me off at Pet Smart while he took the truck through a car wash. Then we both went to Wal-Mart. We discovered that in Colorado they only sell 3.2 beer in grocery stores and no wine. I was going to pick up a couple of bottles of Colorado wines but didn’t want to find an actual liquor store. When we got back Bill realized that Xena got into a bag of beef sticks and ate them all. Neither of us was a happy camper. I cheated and bought a rotisserie chicken at the grocery and cleaned out all the little bits of “stuff” in the fridge and finished the meal off with raw veggies. After dinner I made a batch of Fiber One cookies. Yum! This batch was a little gooier the last ones I made, but very good. We chilled and watched TV.