Ramada Inn Sterling

We'd like to be able to say that Colorado is gorgeous and that crossing the Continental Divide (again) was impressive, and that the Rockies as we drove into Denver were just amazing. Alas, we saw none of it. It's been snowing since this morning when we left Utah, the ...

... 3 kids and 2 border collies. My car is packed 'Full' of everything, from tents, camp chairs, stove, food, cooking gear, sleeping bags, pet gear, port-a-potty (we are potty training as well right now) and yes, even a travel sink to keep the good hygene going. I feel like I might as well just take an RV at this point. It ...

We LOVED this driving day. The Eastern half of Utah was beautifully carved with such a variety of mountains. We pulled over at a few overlooks off the highway. It is the "out west" we'd always wanted to see.<br><br>When we got into Colorado it only got better. Every turn through the mountains offered a new a glorious view. It never got ...

... on Sundays. Darn the luck. We did get into a museum. The main attraction was "Rattle Snake Annie". She took her small son for a horseback ride out to a river where some duck hunters had left some ducks. She found herself surrounded by rattlesnakes. She was a crack shot with a 22 rifle. When the smoke cleared the score was, Annie 140 snakes 0. She took 40 of them home, skinned em, dried em and made a dress out of them. She had ...

Sterling smells like sanitation. In fact, most of NE Colorado and W Nebraska smells like sanitation. Like there's an overpopulated hog farm and no one cleans up there. Along the way in Denver, we encountered our first bout of traffic. Some guy almost rammed into the back of us. That would've been unfortunate. Luckily, I was aimed toward the shoulder, so the guy ...

... to do to get moving. He had some trouble with not keeping the gas when he was shifting or trying to add the brake while he was putting in the clutch. Eventually he got over these things. His shifting was still very rough though and didn't have the clutch-accelerator balance yet. But we were at least moving and I was able to rest a bit while. Nonetheless, we were both very tired so we stopped at the Colorado tourist center to sleep ...

... year, where 500,000+ Harley Davidsons, Hondas, Choppers etc... all come together for a rally. We'd parked 4 blocks from the main street as Chuck at the SD Ranch had told us to do and walked to Main Street as they shut the main part of town off to anything apart form bikes. It was quite spectacular. I have never ever seen so many bikes in my life, I have never seen so many pairs of leather chaps in my life, the noise was unbelievable as well. It's almost in ...

... not locate a spot. Phil was also on his phone calling all the chain motels. I must have looked like I was exhausted, and I was, because Dave went to his cell phone and made a call and pretty soon we were staying in a house owned by his church. We met the pastor at the church and he gave us a key to the house where we spent a very comfortable night. We ate at a pretty good Chinese restaurant, The Hidden Dragon, had a ...

So Denver, Colorado, and the Denver International Airport in particular, is the true starting point for our world wide adventure. Our plan, if a bit ill-conceived and quite a bit overdue, is to begin our grand adventure by spending about 2.5 weeks in Central America. Costa Rica is the first country on our trip and the general idea is to make our way north to Mexico City. Several countries are on our list for Central America, but without any reservations or real plans, the ...

After giving Bill the painting of Pike's Forest I went downtown to the book store again. I left three paintings there to see if Harvey could sell them, then I headed north on 76. It's hard to avoid the interstates in parts of the west because they converted the regular through road into the interstate and the side roads often dead end. But once route 6 split off on it's own I followed it. I stopped at a picnic table in ...