We left Santa Cruz California from Melanie’s house in Scotts Valley and headed to Wendy and Troy’s in Golden, Colorado. We left after 1 pm on Wednesday and stopped in Fernley, Nevada about 30 miles east of Reno. We stopped at a Flying J truck stop and fueled up. Price of diesel was around 4.29 a gallon down from 5.19 in California. We pulled in around 9:30 at night and found a spot out of the way of the truckers. We got a strange wake up call during the night. For those of you who remember the show “I Love Lucy” the episode that Lucy, Desi, Fred and Ethel are heading towards California and end up spending the night at a cabin. They settled in and then woke up to a very loud sound of a train going to run thru the cabin. That is what we woke up to and started to laugh remembering that episode and also of the movie My Cousin Vinny with the train going pass the hotel early in the morning. The tracks were within a couple of hundred feet of the RV.
We had some weather on the way back to Colorado. We were driving up Coal Creek Canyon road around 8800 ft elevation, the rain turned to something that I was hoping to avoid “SNOW”. It didn’t last but a few minutes but it did snow. We looked out the window this morning Saturday and saw Long Peak mountain 14000 ft elevation and it was topped with snow, this morning Eisenhower tunnel area on Interstate 70 and Loveland pass area had snow and the road had to be plowed. I am not ready for this especially in August.
We plan on being in Colorado till just after Labor Day when we will head towards Wyoming and go to Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks for about a week of visiting then head back to Santa Cruz, CA to see Melanie and her family. Will update soon with hopefully more pictures and stories.
Rene & Sue
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just glad you were not in the Grand Canyon this week.
Well, I guess that you have us beat on the first snow....Hope that you find some weather that suits your clothes!!
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