After over 9 months, we are now heading east - towards home!!!!

  We have been busy on the road. We left  Moab, Utah via scenic Route 128 to I-70 East into Colorado,

Thumper hunting lizards

rafting on Colorado River

a winery on Route 128

on Route 128

then I-76 into Nebraska and on to route 81 south to Saline, Kansas on I-70.  Lots of miles going through these big states. It was not dull. Entering Colorado, you head up and up through the Rocky Mountains (go past well known ski resorts)

highway through Rockies

reaching summit at Vail

and then near Denver you are descending. About 30 miles or so east of Denver, the roadways are straight and no mountains. What a difference in landscape from one side of Denver to the other side.
  While driving through Nebraska, the winds picked up and slowed our driving down. We spent last night in Gothenburg, Nebraska. Around 8 pm. the lightening started, the winds really picked up, rain began and the town's tornado alarm went off. Right after that, my phone started screeching with a message of a "tornado warning" and to get to a safe place. The owner of the campground came by with his alarm and everyone staying at the campground went up to the office to sit out the nasty weather that hit. With the winds picking up, rain came down on an angle pounding the office/store (cement structure, thank God). There were about 50 campers and 2 dogs (one was Thumper) all together waiting out the storm. When winds subsided, everyone returned to their motorhomes, etc. waiting for the rain to stop. Welcome to Tornado Alley!!!!!!

finally into Nebraska

farmland

 This morning was beautiful. We were up early and out - on our way to Kansas, the breadbasket of America.

made it to Kansas

farms on both sides