Yesterday morning we finally made it into Amarillo but the majority of the roads were still closed. It took us about 3 hours to make it into the parking lot of the Flying J, there were big trucks parked three wide in the roadway, and trucks parked on the fuel island, creating one huge log jam. The state police were not happy campers and neither were a lot of truck drivers!
As we watched the news reports on the TV in the restaurant for the Fargo area flooding, the newscaster mentioned another major winter storm to hit the area on Monday. When we got back to the truck, I checked the forecast for Gillette, WY again and they are calling for another major storm/blizzard for Sunday night into Monday…………SWEET!! Just what we need…..not.
Gillette, WY, land of blizzards and no cell phone service.
We made great time, finally getting through the rest of Texas, through about 60 miles of the panhandle of Oklahoma and into Colorado. We found a rest area about 50 miles south of Denver, and called it a night, we had a good ride and got in about 415 miles, we will tackle the rest of the trip today.
When you get about 30 miles south of Denver;, you can see the vista of the Rocky mountains rising in front of you, its an unbelievably beautiful sight. Having grown up in the Catskill mountains of New York, I am no stranger to being surrounded by moutain views, but they in no way prepare you for the sight of the Rockies. Now I know why they are described as majestic. It is a good description for something so beautiful it almost defies description.
I remember coming through during the summer, when its 80 degrees and you can still see snow on the highest peaks. Our Catskill and Andirondack mountains, while beautiful in their own right, look like hills in comparison. I can certainly understand living there and enduring the winters in order to have that view every day. Its soemthing I would never grow tired of.
This morning the views do not disappoint, the sun is just starting to rise and the highter elevations are all bathed in a rosey glow. The sky is clear, and it looks like another beautiful day, we are hoping to make it to Gillette and our power plant before the storm hits.
There is very little snow on the ground here in Denver, but I am sure that is all going to change the further north we travel. The temperature is dropping rapidly, its down to 27 right now and falling.
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