Colorado Springs!

Here it is the third day of our great adventure 2010, and we're settling down inside the bus at 9:30 pm local after a very busy day.

Let's see... last night we w ere on the shore os Lake Ogallala, somewhere west of north butt nebraska. Now nebraska is interesting... not. flat as a board and road straight as an arrow, endlessly. 460 miles from one end to the other. The east side, omaha / lincoln, where the highway follows the river, is a lil interesting. West of where we stayed the night the land dries out, farms give way to grass and sage, and it looks more western.
In between, it is an endless flat wasteland of corn on the left beans on the right.

So we got up this morning, made blueberry muffins for breakfast, showered in a nice facility provided by the state of nebraska, and broke camp early and hit t he road. A lil delay when I decided to bring the air pressure up in the bus. I'd been running a hundred pounds looking for a better ride, but the steering had not been nice to me, wandering all over and very slow to respond to corrections. So we stopped at a truckstop and brought all six up to max, 120 psi, actually i went to 125 since the tires were warm.

By 10 am we were in colorado on I76, and on the outskirts of denver by 1. We tried to find something called red rock ampatheature to stop for lunch, but between Carol's map reading skills and "bitchin betty's" not showing me every interstate (doncha think at "the right" zoom, if it showed some it swhould show them all?) well, we failed... ended up stopping for lunch in some big office complex parking lot (empty on a saturday) and picknicking in a shady spot on the shore of the retention pond.

Was great to finally see the rocky mountains again. As I said at the beginning of this blog, that's why we're here, cause I'm sick to death of the flatlands. Heading south on I25, we had a couple steep climbs, and drove through a bitchin thunderstorm that we watched come down out of the mountains.

Finally around 4 we hit colorado springs, and found "Garden of the Gods" campground. This is a commercial facility on colorado ave at maybe 36th or so? very close to the state park of the same name. So we're packed in here like sardines, but the facilities are nice, the place seems quiet enough, and of course you can't beat the location.

After a great dinner of steak fajitas cooked outside, we went and found red rock canyon open space, a fairly new huge park / hiking place that turned out to be right across the street. We hiked the canyons for a mile and a half or so, and riley got some much needed excersize. And now it's time to give the pup one last walk before bed, and find someplace to get rid of our garbage bag. g'night all.
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