Nov 1st to 5th

Nov 1^st to 5^th - Fri to Tues

I haven’t posted on the blog for 5 days as we were on a road trip.  We left Friday morning to go to St. Peter Minnesota to pick up a motorcycle & enclosed trailer that Terry bought from our friend Mike.

We spent the first night in Tucumcari NM and then drove a long day to Sioux City Iowa.  Along the way we went past enormous feed lots.  The smell was so bad that a squashed skunk made it smell better!  We ended up having to change rooms at the motel as someone above us took a shower and water started pouring through our bathroom ceiling.

On Sunday we continued to St. Peter where we met Mike’s nephew Kelly at his auto body shop where the bike & trailer were located.  We strapped down the bike, hooked up and headed back.  The weather so far had been perfect and was marred only a bit by high winds for a couple of hours.  We put in another very long day (13 hours), enjoyed a blazing sunset and stayed at Grand Island Nebraska.

Monday was another long, uneventful day which took us to Albuquerque NM.  We took a different route back to avoid roads with little towns that require slowing & speeding back up to 65 MPH over & over.  We ended up on Hwy 71 in eastern Colorado which is a very flat, even boring part of an otherwise scenic state.  We stayed at the Route 66 Casino hotel.  We had a lovely room and spent a couple of hours on the slots before getting a very good night’s sleep.  As we drove south from Las Cruces, a bank of very dark clouds produced a great lightning show that stayed a long way from the highway.  We realized in the morning that it rained during the night but we didn’t hear a thing.

Tuesday we drove 4 ½ hours before stopping at a casino in Payson AZ for breakfast and a bit of slot play since Terry kept our losses to a minimum the day before.  Gloria was making dinner for us so we didn’t want to be late getting in.  We actually arrived about 2 and went to the courtyard to listen to Curtis and dance a bit before joining Ernie & Dianne at Dennis & Gloria’s.  Bruce & Ann stopped by for a drink before we ate.  When we arrived we also hugged hello to Duane & Sue who arrived the day we left.

The bike is still in the trailer as we were ready to relax & have fun - not like driving 3300 miles in 5 days isn't fun!