We've not done much "tripping" this year. It just didn't happen. But now we were going to Colorado to babysit while Mindy and Jason went on an anniversary trip to Cabo, Mexico.
We decided to take a different route, not I-70. We started going west on Hi-way 50, straight out of our town.
Sandhills by Sylvia. I would have stopped to see a friend who lives there, but our grandchildren were anxious for us to come. Tenley kept telling Mindy "Grandpa drives sooooooo slow!"
We stopped outside Dodge where you could walk out to see where the Santa Fe Trail was;
where all those wagons traveled from 1821 to 1880.
It was hard to figure out where the ruts were.
I found this aeriel view:
This is cattle country.
We were getting hungry for lunch.
We found a picnic site by a historical marker. It was quite interesting to read about this Indian attack back in 1816. If you want to find out more, click here.
This picnic area said "wet paint" but with the hot wind, it was dry. We decided to eat here because we didn't find anything else around. I'd packed pork bbq sandwiches and some salad.
It was on the edge of the golf course of Lakin (a town of about 2,000). We saw a few people out golfing.
At Lamar, we turned north, then on 287 that angled north to Limon, Colorado. Some of these were new roads for us and we were able to highlight them in yellow on our atlas. That's how we know if we've been on them before.
The Arkansas River - mighty small here!
It was a lot of open space. A beauty of its own.
When we got to Limon, there were lots of low hanging clouds. We ran through some rain.
The girls were so excited when we finally arrived!
We were excited too!!
Mindy had fixed a delicious meal of chicken, asparagus and couscous.
Then we went to the backyard to play!
We were so anxious to play with the girls for a few days! But we were going to have some help too! A couple of cousins were coming the next day......
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