We woke fairly early but had clothes to fold, separate and bag up from washing last night. This is always a process, but well worth it. Our route today was 34 through Rocky Mountain National Park, then hop on the I-25 (not so fun but only for 60 miles), then 85 to 151 to 71. Not a bad ride today. We spent about 3.5 hours driving through the park. We stopped to photograph the two moose and a ton of elk. Not to mention the glorious views of the snow capped mountains. It was a bit overcast and looked like it was snowing on top of mountains surrounding us. We saw a flurry or two but nothing became of it. The elevation is 10,500. We came down the mountain and through Estes Park. Nice town and full of Inns, lodges, motels, hotels and cabins. Too bad we were not staying here. Just outside of Estes were beautiful canyons with Canyon River turning into Thompson River running along side of us weaving from side to side as we criss-crossed over it. No pictures as there was no place to stop that was safe. It was so curvy. The side consisted of the white line then canyon wall or water. No extra pavement. I don't believe any video was taken as the battery ran out filming in the park. Bummer. The color of the canyon walls were memorable. Striped with light green, yellow, orange and brown. We got into Loveland and ate at Carl's Jr, which is really Hardees. On to Wyoming. Hitting this state again was typical of what we saw last time a couple of weeks ago.... Flat to barely rolling hills of grassland and farming. This continued into Nebraska for a bit until we got a little closer to Scottsbluff. There, we spotted some mountains, well not really mountains but if you were to ask the locals I'm sure they would call them mountains. It reminded me of the monuments in Monument Valley. We rode into town looking for the 2 campgrounds we googled. One was closed and the other was extremely sketchy. So with that said we staid at the Days Inn. This camping thing isn't working out so well for us. Hopefully tomorrow will be better. We walked to the Whiskey Creek for dinner. It was very good. Today's weather was great. We did endure about 7 minutes of rain. No big deal. It was while we were on the interstate so we barely felt the sprinkle. All in all we had endure less than 30 minutes of rain our entire trip. We feel truly blessed.
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