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Published: February 11th 2013
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We have discovered that everything has a drive-thru. Why walk to an ATM when you can just drive straight up to one?
A 6:30am rise to have our routine continental breakfast of cereal & juice before we hit the road again. Cornflakes seems to be the flavour of our trip. Bree has also discovered ‘coated cornflakes’, no extra sugar sachet needed.
Our scheduled drive today was 5 hours + an extra hour to visit Mark’s Aunty & Uncle’s old ranch just our of Fort Collins and take a few photos.
In our 6 days and 3,500km’s we have discovered that RV-ing is America’s favourite pastime. Most RV’s carry a combination of their car or boat. We have also discovered that everything has a drive-thru. Why walk to an ATM when you can just drive straight up to one? Mark had to struggle awkwardly out of the driver’s side window and position himself away from the sun in order to see the screen, but hey!
A first on our American road trip was booking into a hotel for more than 1 night in Greeley, near Fort Collins, Colorado. After settling into the lodgings and trying unsuccessfully to use the free Wi-Fi provided we decided to take our car and give it a well deserved bath.
On a more sombre
note we happened to arrive in Colorado just days after the fatal shooting at a midnight screening of Batman 3 in Aurora, just out of Denver. We had followed this on the radio the past 2 days, so many stories of people who were meant to be at the screening or knew someone who was, 12 lives were taken. May they rest in peace.
Ahhhhhhhhh, our first sleep in, nice to just wake up and not jump straight in the car. We had the morning to relax before heading into Fort Collins to meet up with friends of my aunty & uncle. We grabbed some lunch and stopped at our favourite shop (Wal-Mart) to grab a jumbo-sized salsa dip and went on our way to meet Mark’s Aunty & Uncle’s friends Donna and Frank.
It was so great to meet them both, and were welcomed into their lovely home and spent some time chatting over iced tea before they took us to see the sites of the town. We visited Horsetooth Water Reservoir, 2 Breweries & took a walk through the town. We got to meet Jessy, their daughter & heard about Lucas, her twin brother. Donna &
Frank cooked us an amazing home cooked meal. Nothing like home cooking at this point in our trip.
After a great dinner, a couple more drinks and great conversation we all too soon had to head back to the hotel to get some rest before tackling the Rocky Mountains the following day. It was so lovely to spend time with a lovely couple and hopefully one day we can be the hosts for them down under.
Today Mark woke up feeling the effects of the beers that everyone “made him drink” lastnight, we packed the car and had breakfast before hitting the road in the direction of the famous Rocky Mountain National park.
What a wonderful place to visit, middle of summer and still snow on sections of the mountains. We stopped at many places, walking small pathways to viewing areas conveying so many views with different aspects.
Animals were to be seen, mainly deer and a funny little creature that goes by the name of a Marmot. There was a definite wheeziness in our breathing and we could feel the effects of a 14,000ft elevation. We continued our way south the whole way through the
National Park until we finally exited and headed into Denver. We continued further south another hour and booked into a hotel in Colorado Springs.
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D MJ Binkley
Dave and Merry Jo Binkley
The Rocky's are amazing
We never tire of looking at them. Looks like you enjoyed sampling the fine local brew.