Steamboat to Grand Junction

My husband and I are doing this drive a lot these days, back and forth between our new town and my parents, until we get settled. It's a beautiful drive, very rural, greener every time we do it. And there's lots to look at...cows and horses everywhere, pigs, trains and train tracks, trucks, a tunnel, rivers. Also deer and twice we've seen antelope in the same place not far from here. And last weekend I was driving along and came around the corner and there was this humongous bird in the road. 

"What the heck is that?" I said as I hit the brakes. "Oh, a turkey! A turkey in the road."

It's a 3 1/2 hour drive and the kids do amazing...I time it so they are napping part of the way and there are cheddar bunnies and water for a snack when they wake up and a DVD if things get desperate but usually they are perfectly content to look out the windows with me, seeing and commenting on what there is to see. 

XO