Sunday Sept. 13

Today was the worst day of our whole trip! We got up to unpredicted strong winds and it went downhill from that. We waited awhile trying to decide what to do. Looking online we decided we’d better change our plans and go north to I-70 and then go east towards home. We had planned a leisurely trip home through the Four Corner, Arizona and New Mexico but weather didn’t look too good there. We got everything ready and pulled out before hooking the truck on. Then we discovered the wire running from motor home to truck lights was sliced and missing the connector. Found parts in an Alco to jimmy-rig the lights……..Colorado from Utah border to Denver is absolutely beautiful! BUT it was horrible to drive. We have marked it on the atlas as a “DO NOT TRAVEL IN RV” route. The road is in the Colorado river bed so it winds all over. For several miles the westbound lane is higher then us as there is no room for it. We climbed some horribly steep mountains and then had to go back down. We couldn’t find any place to get off for the night so ended up driving through Denver after dark. Oh and did I mentioned it rained off and on. About 9 or so we stopped at a crowded truck stop just east of Aurora, CO and slept in the restaurant’s parking lot. We were both exhausted……….We saw snow capped mountains and lots of aspens turning so that was good.