Back From Denver

Looking Toward Rocky Mountain National Park

It's an 18 hour drive from our house to Denver. 1036 miles, to be exact. Each way, in case you missed that. As you can see, we took a trip into the beautiful Rocky Mountains, although I think they call this the foothills. Looked like mountains to me. How beautiful!

I think this is Lake Evergreen. 

I was so happy that there was no snow on those mountain roads. 

 Evergreen, A little very-Western town in the mountains

I kept expecting Roy Rogers to come galloping around the corner

We had a lovely time with my brother's family, (How I wish they lived closer) and then it was time to head back home. Another 18 hours in the car. I shouldn't complain; they've made that trip from Colorado to Wisconsin many times!

I'm leaving you with photos of eastern Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa, and southern Minnesota.

Notice a theme here?? They don't call the Great Plains 'America's Breadbasket' for nothing. As we were traveling those many hours in the car, I couldn't help thinking about those pioneering families in the mid-1800s who courageously left their homes in the East and traveled by wagon out onto the vast prairie, with the promise of land and a bright future in the West.

And then I think of Donner Pass.