COLORADO Day Twelve 9/4/14

Hello Blog Follwers,

We have begun the long journey home.  Tonight we are writing from Grand Island, Nebraska.  We left Grand Junction at 6:00 this morning and made our way across the mountains and the prairies of eastern Colorado and western Nebraska.  We made one stop to strtch our legs a bit in Kearney, Nebraska.   We toured the Archway Museum, which chronicles the human history along the Great Platte River Road/Trail.  The Archway spans all four lanes of I-80.

Tomorrow we will be back home.  Our final post will follow sometime this weekend.

1.  First light.
2.  A final glance.  Good-bye Rocky Mountains.
3.  I-76 in Eastern Colorado.  Note the lack of trees, or anything else.
4.  The Archway Museum at Kearney.
5.  The Hall County Courthouse in Grand Island.

COLORADO Day Eleven. 9/2/14

Hello Blog Friends,

Well,as they say...the best laid plans...we are still in Grand Junction.  We tried to leave, but only got about 20 miles or so down the road.  We left at about 1:30, got to mile marker 58, then came to a dead stop.  In a place with limited cell signal, of course.  While we were sitting there, the Grand Junction Bomb Squad went rolling by.  Not a good sign!  We sat for 45 minutes, moved less than 1/4 miles, said "this is nuts", and turned around in the median and came back to town.  Turns out, there was a suspicious looking item they thought might be a bomb, but ultimately wasn't.   Police closed I-70 in both directions for 4 hours.  When we turned back, the line was over 5 miles long.

Mom sure was surprised to see us!  Speaking of Mom, she is doing well and has a tentative release date of next Tuesday and will fly home a couple days after that.

We didn't take many photos today, but I can share a few pics of Debeque Canyon and the traffic jam.

COLORADO Day Ten 9/1/14

Hello Blog Followers,

Mom Update:  She is doing better every day, but still has a ways to go.

We spent our last day in Grand Junction mostly at the hospital, but did manage a couple of hours away.  We drove Rim Rock Drive on the Colorado National Monument.   Tomorrow we are reluctantly heading back to Wisconsin and will write from the road.

Photos from today are all views of/from the Monument.