[Today’s run: 3.4 miles on Watson Road]<\/p>\n
We arrived back at home last night around 9 pm from our travels.<\/p>\n
We left on Thursday the 17th.\u00a0 After dropping the pets off at the boarders and doing some other stuff we were finally able to get on the road.\u00a0 We took US-82 straight west across Mississippi and into Arkansas.\u00a0 We stopped in Pine Bluff for the night.<\/p>\n
On Friday the 18th we drove from Pine Bluff to Oklahoma City, arriving in the early afternoon.\u00a0 I had an auction purchase to pick up at an FAA facility at their airport.\u00a0 I hope to post more on that some time later.\u00a0\u00a0 After the pickup, we continued on to the north.\u00a0 We stopped for the night in Perry, OK.<\/p>\n
On Saturday the 19th we drove all the rest of the way in to Loveland, CO.\u00a0 It was mostly uneventful except for a flat tire on the old Toyota pickup truck which I was able to change without any real trouble.\u00a0 We stayed at the Travelodge in Loveland.\u00a0 They had us set up with a nice room on the 3rd floor toward the back.\u00a0 It was quiet and we had a good stay there.<\/p>\n
On Sunday we slept in for quite a while.\u00a0 I visited the church service at Derby Hill Baptist<\/a> where Dr. Trimble gave a very interesting pre-Christmas sermon on love.\u00a0 In the evening we went to see the new Star Wars movie.<\/p>\n On Monday I went in to the office at Platte River Power Authority<\/a> for about 2\/3rd of a day’s work.<\/p>\n On Tuesday my wife had a medical procedure early in the morning.\u00a0 She came out of that feeling fine so we drove up the Big Thompson canyon to Estes Park.\u00a0 We made a short visit at the Rocky Mountain National Park visitor’s center and had a nice lunch at the Scratch Deli<\/a>.\u00a0 Then we drove back down the canyon and up through Masonville, around the end of Horsetooth Reservoir and ended up at the New Belgium Brewery in Ft. Collins for a quick refresher.<\/p>\n On Wednesday, I think I spent most of the day watching television and goofing around while wife and daughter went shopping.\u00a0 It was a nice relaxing day. I dropped the flat tire off for repair.<\/p>\n Thursday was also fairly relaxed.\u00a0 I had a bit of my own shopping to do, and I got together with future-son-in-law to work on car projects.\u00a0 The flat tire was repaired at Big-O tire, at no cost.\u00a0 We finished the day at a\u00a0 party with the in-law family where we enjoyed fondue and good company.<\/p>\n Friday was Christmas and we packed up our stuff and checked out of the motel before heading over to the daughter’s apartment for presents, pizza and some dominos with her and the fiance.\u00a0 I think it was around 1 pm when we reluctantly started out eastward in our first leg toward home.\u00a0 Highway 14 to Sterling was partially snow covered and somewhat challenging.\u00a0 Interstate 76 took us north to I-80 and then east to North Platte where we stopped for the night.\u00a0 We ate dinner at Penny’s Diner, which was just about the only place in town that was open.<\/p>\n Saturday we drove from North Platte to Des Moines under low and heavy skies.\u00a0 The temperature was warm enough that we did not have any real problem with the road surface.\u00a0 But things looked a bit threatening.\u00a0 Saturday evening we attended the famous “Brown Drawing” party in Waukee, Iowa.\u00a0 It has probably been 20 years since we attended.\u00a0 We enjoyed the party!<\/p>\n On Sunday we were up early and got a good start on the road toward home.\u00a0 We traveled highway 163 SW from Des Moines to Mt. Pleasant than took “avenue of the Saints” to St. Louis.\u00a0 Wife wanted to meet a runner friend, so we stopped for a nice visit at a coffee shop in downtown St. Louis where they drank coffee and I had chocolate milk.\u00a0 After that we continued south on I-55 to Sikeston, MO where we stopped in at the Lamberts Cafe<\/a> (home of the throwed rolls) for dinner.\u00a0 I wouldn’t say the food there is amazing, but the quantity is definitely so, and the atmosphere of the place is unique.\u00a0 After that we crossed over into Tennessee at Dyersburg and travelled south to Jackson, TN; Selmer, TN; Corinth, MS; Tupelo; West Point and home.<\/p>\n On the way out we were driving two vehicles, our 2010 Honda Accord and the 1996 Toyota Tacoma.\u00a0 We used some little walkie-talkies to keep in touch.\u00a0 We left the Toyota with the daughter in Loveland to replace the old 1985 Ford F-150 which seems to be just about dead.\u00a0 And we finished the trip with both us and all our auction stuff, Christmas gifts and luggage in the Accord.\u00a0 Except for that flat tire in eastern Colorado everything went just fine.<\/p>\n Today the wife went and bailed the pets out at the pet-boarder place and I’ve been trying to do a bit of work for the office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [Today’s run: 3.4 miles on Watson Road] We arrived back at home last night around 9 pm from our travels. 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