The extra day for the Labor Day weekend also added an extra day for our delivery schedule this week. It was nice because we could really take our sweet time getting to our first delivery near Durango. This is a beautiful little town in southwest Colorado just north of the New Mexico border. We used to take the backroads just for a change of scenery from the interstate. Now we take the backroads because we have to. In fact this delivery was down a dirt road out to this little coal mine. We delivered some steel and metal that they use to reinforce the ceiling of the underground mines. It was our first trip ever to this part of Colorado and the views were spectacular. The next stop the following morning was in Casper, Wyoming – about 12 hours due north. The best part about that was the state highway we had to take to work our way up to Denver. It was one mountain pass after another and around every curve a different view. I won’t bore you with the hundreds of pictures I took but will include several of them. Here are a few new road signs we've never seen on our trips before. One letting us know how steep the hills were and the other one to alert us to the switchback curve ahead... as if we couldn't tell.
We drove thru one cute little old town called Pagosa Springs and had lunch at a wonderful Mexican restaurant. We were chilly sitting out on their terrace while watching all these people in swimsuits just across the little river from us sitting in the natural hot springs. Too bad we were on a tight schedule that day or we could have joined them. Here is a view of that neat little town. We put this on our list of places we'll come back to visit some day -- in a car!
The next morning we delivered in Casper and decided to hurry up and get done with the last stop in San Jose, California. If we could hustle it over there we could also avoid some of the worst rush traffic in the country... the San Francisco Bay area. According the GPS it was twenty-one hours of driving from Casper but thankfully we made it there with a few hours to spare. With that trip behind us, we were ready for the next adventure. So yesterday we picked up a container full of automotive parts at one of the California ports. It needs to be delivered in this little Kentucky town of Harrodsburg on Monday morning. That means today is a traveling day, as most of them are these days. Sounds like they have us planned to pull some UPS freight to Dallas once we get done with this so we are really people on the move!