DAY 33: Rain, Rain Go Away.....Come Again When We Get Back Home...

DAY 33:  Estes Park, CO - August 2, 2010

Rain, Rain, Go Away......

Come Again Another Day (at least until we leave!) 

Each day here starts out beautiful, sunny, cool without a cloud in the sky........but by around 2:00 pm, here come the clouds over the mountains heading right towards us.  

Today was no different.

We started today by saying goodbye to our new friends, Jug and Donna.  They live down near Houston and just happened to be our next door neighbors here in Estes Park.  It’s amazing how many Texans are here.......we are everywhere.  But Jug and Donna are so much like Chuck and I in so many ways, we got along as if we’d known each other for years.  I feel sure we’ll be spending more time with them in the future!

We took off for the Rock Mountains cause Liz heard of a super cool one-way "dirt" road to the 12,000' peak that just HAD to try out......And we weren't disappointed!  Lots of hairpin turns on old rutted, dirt roads; beautiful waterfalls along the side of the road and gorgeous scenery.  Part of that scenery was low ominous clouds that were following us everywhere we went.....(this is a good time to remind any of you who are currently in a drought stricken area that Chuck and I are for hire.....we will definitely bring you rain!)

We made it to the Information Center at the peak, had just enough time to spend $8 on two cookies, a soda and a coffee before the weather caught up with us.  We loaded up and headed back down the mountain on blacktop roads.  That’s when the clouds, looking like a scene from the movie “The Fog”, started closing in around us.  We could barely see two feet in front of us, are 12,000’ up on this mountain with no guardrails, on a motorcycle, in the rain and clouds........and oh, did I mention they were also doing construction??  Yep, we were sitting still in the rain for no less than 15 minutes waiting on the construction.  The temperature on the bike said it was 50 degrees outside when it started hailing on us.....and yes, I see a pattern here!!  It seems to hail on us every time we ride.

We FINALLY made it back to Estes Park, soaked to the bone, and flipped a coin to see who could get the warm shower first.  I WON!!  The rest of the afternoon was spent trying to get the Wifi to work, which consisted of me walking around holding my Verizon Wifi card high in the air trying to get one signal bar to no avail.  I have only found one spot in Estes Park that I can get a Verizon signal and it is several miles up the road, perched at the edge of a creek with my left leg off the ground and my body aimed perfectly at this old mule plow.  I finally was able to talk to my Mom the other day by locating this spot.  

Hopefully tomorrow the campground will get their Wifi fixed and we’ll be back in business.  I have bills to pay and Blogs to write!!!  

G'night....