Picture Update!

So we've almost completed our first week in CO and so far I've seen all seasons of weather. Saturday was 70 and sunny. Sunday it snowed. The rest of this week has been off and on sun with or without rain. I like it though. The cold isn't bitter at all and the sun is WARM here. It can be 40 degrees but if the sun is out you have to shed your hoodie pretty quick.

I've been busy with running errands all week while Ryan has worked. Still not sure what I'll do for work...

So on the road I was only able to use Ryan's cell phone to update the blog and I wasn't patient enough to upload pictures that way. But here you go.

Day 1: North Carolina to Kentucky
This is the truck in the Raleigh col-de-sac ready to pull out at 7:30am Wednesday morning! If you look closely, you can see that the tire straps are in fact on and "secure". Refer back to Day 1's post if you don't understand why that is significant. :) Also note the weather. Wet and cold to send us off.

This is right before we pulled away...Grover looks a little worried. But he settled right in.

When we were driving through the mountains of West Virginia, there was some serious fog. The top picture is looking out the side window. The bottom picture is of our visibility driving.

 

Also, in West Virginia, we saw many things that supported the stereotype of backwoods people with minimal teeth and questionable hygeine. We took this picture to represent the white trash essence that was West Virgina. Now, to be fair, this picture could have probably been taken somewhere in rural NC just as easily. :)

Now throughout the trip, Grover assumed one of three positions at any given moment.

#1: Sleeping on someone's lap.

#2: Lounging.

 

#3: Watching for cows.

 

He was so good on the trip! Wish he was like that every day...

Day 3: Missouri to Kansas

This was the day we got a flat on the car carrier. The mechanic knew not that Ryan was taking his picture. We just hung out at the truck stop for about an hour but still made it to our originally planned destination that night which was nice.

 

We also made our first discovery of little evils in Kansas/Colorado/plains called Goatheads. They are these little spiky "fruits" of a plant and we discovered them because they got stuck in Grover's paw pads and the bottoms of our shoes. They were everywhere in Kansas and we've come across a few here at the apartment. We just have to stay away from really dry, grassy areas where they seem to lurk. Here they are stuck in someone's shoe (I found this picture on Google). Yikes. They are called goatheads because if you orient them just right they look like they have two horns sticking out of the main body..they really do kinda look like goat heads. Very creative.

Day 4: Kansas to Colorado

We finally made it! The weather was gorgeous. You can also see why these states are part of the "Big Sky" club. Since there are very few trees, the sky seems so much bigger because you can see SO far.

Then, on Sunday it snowed. But, like I said, it was a nice snow and it wasn't even that cold!

That is all for now.