The Family Sideways: OK!

OK! 6/28/2006 07:58:00 AM

We're at our hotel in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma, and we decided that in leiu of driving 13 hours to Steamboat today, we'll take it relatively easy and go the nine and a half hours to Limon, CO, on the close side of Denver, or if I'm feeling frisky, through Denver to Georgetown, a little mining town my family and I visited a long, long time ago that has since exploded (as in gotten much bigger; not as in been destroyed).

Yesterday's drive wasn't bad. The car is too full to see out of any of the windows other than the front three, but it's not so bad only having the side mirrors. I thought I'd be worried about the bikes as they're out on the car for the world to see, but they're all locked together in one way or another, and because the hotel we checked in to last night was full other than us, the nice lady at the front desk just told me to park in the handicapped spot (there were like 6, all open) - she said all the handicapped rooms were already taken.. But I do feel a LITTLE guilty about that.

So, D's in the shower now and I'm on deck. Removing her luggage from the car was actually less of a chore than I thought it would be - I planned ahead and made sure the suitcases were easily accessible from the rear passenger side door (but if you open the hatch or the driver-side rear door, look out cuz things will be a-tumblin.

As we crossed the state line from TX into OK last night, there were actually fireworks. Literally. Apparently the border is determined by a river, and some dude on the river was shooting fireworks at the bridge above just as we crossed. Fitting.

Expect some risky roadside blogging today. We'll be passing through Oklahoma City about 30 minutes after departure, and then into Kansas. Once we're in the middle of Kansas we take a left and don't turn until we're in Silverthorne, just nextdoor to Keystone, CO (where I learned how to ski). And that probably won't happen until tomorrow anyway, so the countdown is probably one day off.

Hopefully the place we stay tonight has some free WiFi also. Here's hoping!

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1 Comments:

Anonymous said...

wohoo! almost there!

Fireworks are an appropriate sendoff - as long as they aren't on a floating paper "fireworks barge" at Nick's lake!

Oh.. and as long as they don't scare Wrigley!

posted at 9:57 AM